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Date palm juice: A potential new 'green' anti-corrosion agent for aerospace industry - The search for a "greener" way to prevent corrosion on the kind of aluminum used in jetliners, cars and other products has led scientists to an unlikely source, according to a report in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. It's the juice of the date palm -- those tall, majestic trees that, until now, were noted mainly as sources of food and traditional medicines.(10.1021/ie301771u)

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