laundry starch
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The air of August smells of “rotting mattress straw, laundry starch, mildew and cat piss.”
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017
I heard that people with a condition called “pica” eat things such as laundry starch because of a vitamin deficiency.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2017
You'll investigate whether different salts have iodine by mixing them with laundry starch, which forms a blue-purple–colored chemical with iodine.
From Scientific American • Nov. 21, 2013
His father was a traveling salesman who sold laundry starch throughout seven states.
From Newsweek
Experiment.—Get together some slices of white potato, sweet potato, parsnip, broken kernels of corn, wheat and oats, a piece of laundry starch and some tincture of iodine diluted to about the color of weak tea.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
