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	Kapok
		Kapok is the fine, silkily lustrous fruit fibers from the fruit walls of the capsules, 10 - 20 cm in length and 3 cm in thickness, of the kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra).
		Kapok fibers are thus used as stuffing for upholstery, bedding and for acoustic and thermal insulation.
		Kapok hairs are not wettable and are thus used for filling life jackets and life belts because the large, air-filled lumen ensures that the kapok fibers have a low density and good buoyancy.
	www.tis-gdv.de /tis_e/ware/fasern/kapok/kapok.htm (1340 words)

	kapok on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The floss has been important in commerce since the 1890s; the chief source is Ceiba pentandra, the kapok (or silk-cotton) tree, cultivated in Java, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other parts of East Asia and in Africa, where it was introduced from its native tropical America.
		The floss is removed by hand from the pods, dried, freed from seeds and dust, and baled for export.
		Kapok is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Malvales, family Bombacaceae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k1/kapok.asp (399 words)

	Kapok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kapok fiber is a silky cotton-like substance that surrounds the seeds in the pods of the ceiba tree.
		The silky kapok fiber, or floss, is a tiny cellulose tube with air sealed inside and it is ideal for stuffing life preservers and other water-safety equipment because of its excellent buoyancy.
		Moreover there's yet another plusvalence involving the use of kapok fibers: since the ceiba trees grow only naturally and there aren't coltivations of this plant, the use of the kapok silk stimulates the safeguard of these secular plants which are ecologic patrimony of our planet.
	www.gzespace.com /kapok.html (213 words)

	Research & Resources: Species Profiles - Kapok Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A giant in the rainforests, the kapok tree can grow to be up to 200 feet tall, sometimes increasing as much as 13 feet per year.
		The kapok tree is deciduous, shedding all of its leaves during the dry season.
		The kapok tree is found throughout the Neotropics, from southern Mexico to the southern Amazon and even to parts of West Africa.
	www.rainforest-alliance.org /resources/forest-facts/species-profiles/kapok-tree.html (338 words)

	Kapok, Ceiba or Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra) Reef Bay Trail, St. John, Virgin Islands
		The Mayans believe that the Kapok, which they call Ceiba, (pronounced say-bah) is the tree of life whose roots extend to the underworld and whose branches hold up the heavens.
		On the dark side, a Mayan legend warns of the evil Xtabay woman who hides in the buttresses at night and emerges to seduce and kill young men who are bewitched by her beauty.
		The Kapok is often associated with the supernatural.
	www.stjohnbeachguide.com /Kapok.htm (961 words)

	Kapok Tree - Ceiba pentandra
		The Kapok tree is an emergent tree of the tropical rainforests, and is often described as majestic.
		Fruit bearing plants close to the forest floor rely on animals to eat and disperse their seeds, which will fall to the ground when ripe, and which are normally covered with a thick, appetizing pulp.
		The kapok tree is widely spread around the world and occupies an important niche in the ecosystem of a rainforest.
	www.blueplanetbiomes.org /kapok.htm (600 words)

	kapok -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) surmounts the forest canopy.
		The kapok is a gigantic tree of the tropical forest canopy and emergent layer.
		Common throughout the tropics, the kapok is native to the New World and to Africa and was transported to Asia, where it is cultivated for its fibre, or floss.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9044652 (644 words)

	Zafu Zabuton Bean Zafu Meditation Pillow Kapok Fiber from Pema Design in British Columbia Canada
		Kapoks are beautiful trees with wide buttresses at the base and large, flattened crowns of leaves and branches.
		The kapok fiber provides a firm support, but as the cushion will compress with use it should be re-shaped by patting after each sitting period.
		Kapok or buckwheat hull filling removed from a cushion should be saved so it can be replaced when desired.
	www.pemadesign.com /zafu_zabuton.htm (385 words)

	The Great Kapok Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The student that represents the Kapok Tree stands in the middle of the circle, holding a long dowel upright, with 30 strings attached.
		Kapok in Center, holds ball of yarn and stick.
		The Kapok Tree provides a home to the ocelot’s prey - the animals that she depends on for food.
	t3.preservice.org /T0211100/ss.htm (855 words)

	CFTC - The Genus Ceiba - Ceiba Tree Information
		The kapok fibers are not attached to the seeds.
		During the 1940s the fluff, or kapok, that surrounds the seeds was harvested commercially for stuffing life preservers, seat cushions, mattresses and saddles.
		One wedge-shaped segment of the fruit is visible behind and left of the kapok.
	www.ceiba.org /ceiba.htm (1350 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Kapok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tree is also known as the Java Cotton, Java Kapok, or Silk-cotton tree (Massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber).
		Also referred to as Ceiba (Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers), it is a sacred symbol in Maya mythology.
		A similar fibre is found in the Indian Bombax malabarica (East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok), it is termed Indian kapok and is darker in colour and less buoyant than the true variety.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kapok.htm (287 words)

	theyogahome.com-kapok pillows
		Kapok is very fluffy when loose, but becomes firm, smooth, and solid when stuffed into a cushion.
		Kapok is the soft seed pod of the kapok tree and is harvested on plantations in Asia.
		Kapok fiber is naturally mold and fire retardant and even floats (it is used to make aircraft seats and other flotation devices).
	www.theyogahome.com /site/1395743/page/524281 (491 words)

	Search Results for "Kapok"
		kapok, (ka´pok, kap´k) (KEY), name for a tropical tree of the family Bombacaceae (bombax family) and for the fiber (floss) obtained from the seeds in the ripened...
		It is an administrative and processing center for a mountainous region where cotton, kapok, rice, millet, peanuts, corn, and yams are grown and sheep and...
		...are composed chiefly of cellulose and may be classed as short fibers, e.g., cotton and kapok; or long fibers, including flax, hemp, Manila hemp, istle, ramie, sisal...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Kapok (306 words)

	Kapok News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kapok guests now have the unique advantage of effortlessly gaining access to the Internet from the comfort of their rooms at speeds significantly faster than the traditional dial-up methods.
		A guest who recently experienced the service during her stay at Kapok had this to say, “ In Room Internet access is at the forefront of the deciding factor for me when booking a hotel during my business travels.
		Now that the Kapok has added this to their value added service, I will be making sure I am a frequent visitor to this property when doing business in Port of Spain.
	www.kapokhotel.com /news.htm (417 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kapok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		FACTOID # 203: Nauru, whose economy is derived almost entirely from phosphate in bird droppings, has the highest rate of unemployment in the world.
		Adansonia – Baobab Bombax – Silk_cotton tree Ceiba – Kapok Durio – Durian Ochroma – Balsa The Bombacaceae is a family of tropical trees in the order Malvales, closely related to the mallow family (Malvaceae), and often included in it, being distinguishable from that family only by the smooth pollen, and larger mature tree stature.
		Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), native to northern South America, Central America and the Caribbean, and (as the variety C. The tree is also known as the Java Cotton, Java Kapok, or Silk-cotton tree.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kapok (1206 words)

	- Agrabah's Enemies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kapok explains that his body, that has the magic of the two parts, separated it self from the head.
		Kapok tells Aladdin that it's body is evil and rules the poor people of Ourfairheart with an iron fist.
		Kapoks guards hold the princess while Kalif Kapok prepare to repeat the same separation he did with Jasmine's boyfriend.As Kapok blasts, the lower part, holds a mirror in front of her and the beam was reflects back at Kapok destroying the collars lock.
	www.streetrat.net /ae/char.php?id=27 (685 words)

	Kapok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a tree of neotropical forests with palmately compound, alternate leaves, and it produces large capsules that contain a very fine fiber as hairs growing from inside the fruit wall.
		Therefore, this commercial fiber is botanically somewhat similar to cotton (Gossypium), and, to be sure, they belong to closely related families, but cotton can be woven into cloth, whereas kapok has been used mainly as stuffing, as in life jackets, pillows, and mattresses and is not manufactured as thread or fabric.
		Kapok was also widely used in bases for baseball.
	www.botgard.ucla.edu /html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Ceiba (141 words)

	The Jakarta Post: PIK to raise roads in Kapok, JAKARTA POST@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		JAKARTA: Developer of the luxury housing complex Pantai Indah Kapok, PT Mandala Permai, has agreed to fulfill Kapok residents' demand to raise 2.5 kilometers of road in their area by one meter.
		The agreement was reached during the third meeting, on Sunday, between the development's management and Kapok residents, who had previously identified the housing complex as being the cause of flooding in their area and had asked for compensation from the developer.
		Hamid, one of Kapok's public figures who attended the meeting, said that with the agreement,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:50988713&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (219 words)

	The Great Kapok Tree: A Social Studies Lesson:: Lesson Plan, Activity, or Teaching Idea from A to Z Teacher Stuff
		The monkeys swing from vines to branches of the Kapok Tree.
		The Kapok Tree provides a home to the jaguar's prey - the animals that he depends on for food.
		Two children from the Yanomamo tribe walked up to the Kapok Tree and said: "You provide shade for the forest floor, and a sturdy trunk for our family's home.
	atozteacherstuff.com /pages/337.shtml (990 words)

	Ceiba Pentandra L.- Kapok tree. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The kapok tree grows more than 200' tall: with widely spreading branches, it is the tallest tree of the Amazon rainforest.
		The silk cotton tree is cultivated for kapok.
		In Suriname's traditional medicine, the seeds, leaves, bark and resin, from the kapok tree are used for: dysentery, fevers, venereal diseases, asthma, menstruation bleedings and kidney diseases.
	www.tropilab.com /ceiba-pen.html (251 words)

	Kapok computer batteries provided by AtBatt.com
		Kapok Computer batteries are specifically designed for each computer brand and model.
		NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion Kapok computer batteries are all fundamentally different from one another and cannot be substituted unless the computer computer has been pre-configured from the manufacturer to accept more than one type of battery chemistry.
		Kapok and the Kapok Family logo are registered trademarks of Kapok™.
	www.atbatt.com /computer-batteries/b/Kapok.asp (662 words)

	Amazon Plants trees - kapok photo
		The Kapok (Ceiba petandra) is a rainforest giant.
		The abundance of epiphytes on upper branches and the long roots reaching down from the tree's crown show how other plants are dependent on these large trees.
		Kapok is one of the few rainforest trees that are wind-pollinated.
	www.junglephotos.com /amazon/amplants/trees/kapok.shtml (95 words)

	Organic Kapok Pillows
		Kapok Pillows offer the comfort of down, while utilizing only cruelty-free, non-allergenic organic cotton and kapok.
		Our Organic Kapok Pillows are filled with kapok, a fiber from the seed pod of the kapok tree, and encased in organic cotton canvas.
		Please allow 2 - 3 weeks for delivery, as our organic kapok pillows are made to order and are shipped directly from the manufacturer.
	store.kidbean.com /0306003.html (95 words)

	Kapok Batteries - Kapok Laptop Battery products from AtBatt.com
		Kapok Laptop batteries are specifically designed for each laptop brand and model.
		We have developed a Kapok laptop battery finder tool that will guide you in choosing the correct battery and ac adapter for your laptop.
		NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion Kapok laptop batteries are all fundamentally different from one another and cannot be substituted unless the laptop has been pre-configured from the manufacturer to accept more than one type of battery chemistry.
	www.atbatt.com /laptop-batteries/B/Kapok.asp (759 words)

	Kapok Notebook Batteries - Kapok notebook battery products from AtBatt.com
		Kapok Notebook batteries are specifically designed for each notebook brand and model.
		We have developed a Kapok notebook battery finder tool that will guide you in choosing the correct battery and ac adapter for your notebook.
		NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion Kapok notebook batteries are all fundamentally different from one another and cannot be substituted unless the notebook notebook has been pre-configured from the manufacturer to accept more than one type of battery chemistry.
	www.atbatt.com /notebook-batteries/b/Kapok.asp (672 words)

	Kapok Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ QuiltPlace.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.quiltplace.com /encyclopedia/Kapok (453 words)

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