Five grains, traditional set phrase for lists or groupings which may contain non-grain crops.[citation needed] Particular instances of Five grains of a single crop or other substance such as minerals and metals have historical or cultural significance as well.[1]
Rice grains showing diversityBi'ur Chametz, burning to eliminate five chametz grains before the Jewish holiday of Passover
Five Cereals (China), various lists of the most important cultivated crops assigned since the earliest mythological times in Chinese cuisine, farming, and civil and spiritual culture[citation needed]
Korean cuisine, in whose myths deities brought seeds of five grains
Ogokbap, a mixture of rice mixed with glutinous rice, cornstarch, red bean, perilla, and soybean in Korean cuisine
A group of crops in Japanese cuisine and spiritual culture whose guardian is Ukanomitama no kami, a spirit to whom Kasama Inari Shrine is dedicated, and which are honored with a Five Grains Garden in Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara
"Five grains of corn," the daily ration of starving settlers from Europe traveling by ship in search of New World settlement, a tradition of ChristianThanksgiving lore [2]
MesoamericaEdit
In the Mayan board game Bul, if 5 tossed corn kernels marked on one side came up blank, the count was 5[3]
In the MexicaAztec board game Patolli, 5 dimpled beans or stones were used like dice[3]
ChemistryEdit
Using Grain (unit), a 325mg tablet of aspirin is sometimes referred to as "five grain aspirin."
"Five grains of gold" are used in such European formulae as that for the gilding of buttons, where they are used in an amalgam of mercury[4]
The chemical specification of Coyoteite, NaFe3S5·2H2O, which was performed by electron microprobing of five grains of this mineral
ReferencesEdit
^Erd, Richard C.; Czamanske, Gerald K. (1983). "Orickite and coyoteite, two new sulfide minerals from Coyote Peak, HunboldtCountry, California". American Mineralogist 68: 245–254, [1]
^The Family magazine, or, Monthly abstract of general knowledge, Volume 2, 1837 CE, p. 413
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