Low cost composite materials are widely used in civil and structural engineering applications. This project uses Epon and chopped hemp to plasticize a commonly used resin, epoxy resin to lower the cost of the composite and to find out the mechanical and thermal properties of the plasticized epoxy resin to see if it is suitable for the said applications. Epon and chopped hemp were mixed together...

Multiple sclerosis (MS), as an auto-immune disease, is confined to the central nervous system and is usually accompanied with debilitating condition in MS patient. The rate of disease in the females is more than males (2:1), and it is diagnosed between 20 to 40 years old. Phototherapy, as a traditional remedy, is used to treat different pathological conditions including MS. Hemp seed oil, as an...

as accompanying the use of this drug arc due to stronger drugs mixed with Indian hemp. He regards liyoscyamus, opium and datura among others as the probable cause of the intoxicating effects. Anyone living in India acquainted with the legal restrictions under which Indian hemp is sold, both"wholesale and retail, will understand that large quantities of these drugs are purchased and consumed in ...

Hemp (Cannabis sativa) is an important fiber crop, and native cultivars exist widely throughout China. In the present study, we analyzed the genetic diversity of 27 important Chinese native hemp cultivars, by using inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) and chromosome markers. We determined the following chromosome formulas: 2n = 20 = 14m + 6sm; 2n = 20 = 20m; 2n = 20 = 18m + 2sm; 2n = 20 = 16m +...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The study aims to determine the nutritional value of hemp seed expressed by the oil content and by the concentration of metals (Ca, Mg, K, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cd), for five varieties of monoecious and dioecious hemp seeds approved in Romania, comparative with the concentration of these metals in the soil. RESULTS The content of oil in hempseed registers a slight decrease i...

The seed of Cannabis sativa L. is an expanding source of proteins and oil for both humans and animals. In this study, the proximate composition of a collection of hemp cultivars and accessions of different geographical origins grown under the same conditions for 1 year was analyzed in order to identify potential accessions to improve hemp cultivars. Fatty acids, tocopherols, and antinutritional...

Similarly, at the beginning of NAFGEN, the Canadian hemp industry was in its 10 year of commercial growth and had developed into a $20 million dollar industry. Most of the commercial growth to date had been driven by the vigorous seed sector, fuelled by demand in the health food and body care products sector. NAFGEN’s vision included laying the ground work for establishing value-added hemp fibr...

Green composites from polypropylene and lignin-based natural material were manufactured using a melt extrusion process. The lignin-based material used was the so called "liquid wood". The PP/"Liquid Wood" blends were extruded with "liquid wood" content varying from 20 wt % to 80 wt %. The blends were thoroughly characterized by flexural, impact, and dynamic mechanical testing. The addition of t...

to allow cultivation of hemp varieties with a 9–THC content below 0.3%. By 1998 hemp was reintroduced The objective was to study the genetic structure and degree of in practically all of Europe (Bócsa and Karus, 1998), variability of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) varieties. Six varieties of hemp were analyzed by random amplified polymorphic DNA though in some countries significant resources are sti...

Cannabis sativa L. is an annual herbaceous crop grown for the production of long extraxylary fibers, the bast fibers, rich in cellulose and used both in the textile and biocomposite sectors. Despite being herbaceous, hemp undergoes secondary growth and this is well exemplified by the hypocotyl. The hypocotyl was already shown to be a suitable model to study secondary growth in other herbaceous ...