Category
page 1Bone products

tusk
Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. Most commonly known as canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses and walruses, or, in the case of elephants and hyrax, elongated incisors. Tusks share common features such as extra-oral position, growth pattern, composition and structure, and lack of contribution to ingestion. In most tusked species both the males and the females have tusks. Although males' are usually larger displaying significant sexual dimorph

shofar
thumbnail|Shofar
thumbnail|Shofar
thumbnail|Blowing the shofar
A shofar ( ; from , ) is an ancient musical horn, typically a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by the player's varying their embouchure. The shofar is blown in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars come in a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on the choice of animal and level of finish.

antlers
thumb|upright|right|Mature red deer stag, Denmark
thumb|upright|Red deer at the beginning of the growing season
bone char
chemical compound
bone meal
Ground mixture of bone and slaughterhouse waste products used as a fertilizer, and other uses
bone tool
In archaeology, tool made by bone
Neatsfoot oil
Animal-based oil used as a treatment for leather.
bone ash
material formed from calcination of bones
Dippel's oil
an oil obtained from the distinctive distillation of horn bones
bone carving
folk art of carving designs in animal bones, teeth, horns, or antlers, or making figures or implements from these materials
artificial bone
bone-like material created in a laboratory that can be used in bone grafts, to replace human bone
Bone spectacle
archaeological site in the East Azarbaijan region, Iran
ossein
Ossein is the organic extracellular matrix of bone, which is made of 95% collagen. This substance is used in industry for the production of gelatin and bone glue.
Bone mineral
inorganic component of bone tissue
bone folder
tool
Mineralized tissue
Biological tissue incorporating minerals