Tanning

Introduction: Tanning

Description of Tanning

Tanning: A process of preserving animal hides by chemical treatment (using vegetable tannins, metallic sulfates, and sulfurized phenol compounds, or syntans) to make them immune to bacterial attack, and subsequent treatments with fats and greases to make them pliable. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed).
Source: MeSH 2007

Hierarchical classifications of Tanning

The following list attempts to classify Tanning into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
  • Industry
    • Tanning

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