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lac - Word of the day - Fri Sep 8, 2023

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lac - (noun) -a resinous substance secreted on certain Asiatic trees by a scale insect: the source of shellac

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Lac is scraped off from trees, dried and chipped up into small pieces and dissolved into alcohol to create shellac. 

 

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Bill W
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And I have use shellac many, many times over the years and never realized that it's source was a small, Asiatic insect.  I always thought it was something a scientist had created in a lab.  Of course, it took someone to figure out that if they scraped the dried off residue and dissolved it in alcohol that it would make a varnish that could be used to form a protective coating on furniture and paintings, but it still all began with an insect.  

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The first thing which popped into my mind was Lancelot du Lac or Lancelot of the Lake, but lac comes from Persian and Hindi sources rather than French.

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LAC is an acronym for Light Attack Craft. In some works of science fiction, they are small ships only capable of sub-light speeds, used to patrol the space around planets. LACs are typically used for piracy suppression, search & rescue, patrol and customs duties. Individually, they aren't very impressive. When a hundred of them show up, you might be in deep trouble. Some larger, heavily populated planets have thousands of them organized in wings of 100 and call the overall formation the High Guard.

Pictured below: Dylan Aerospace LX-1 single seat LAC attached to the Red Raiders wing of Parliament's High Guard.

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