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Rice hulls (or rice husks) are the hard protecting coverings of grains of rice. In addition to protecting rice during the growing season, rice hulls can be put to use as building material, fertilizer, insulation material, or fuel. Rice hulls are part of the chaff of the rice.

Rice hulls are part of the rice seed. The hull protects the grain during the growing season from pests. The hull is formed from hard materials, including opaline silica and lignin. The hull is hard to eat or swallow (unless finely ground) and mostly indigestible to humans because of its enriched fibre components. However, during times of food scarcity in ancient China, a common daily meal was a pastry made from rice husks, wild vegetables, and soybean powder. This led to the idiom "meals of cereal, hulls, and vegetables for half a year," indicating poverty and food insecurity.[citation needed] Testing and commercialization of human grade anti-caking agents were done in the early 2000s. The material is approved for use in USDA Certified Organic products to replace silicon dioxide.

Winnowing, used to separate the rice from hulls, is to put the whole rice into a pan and throw it into the air while the wind blows. The light hulls are blown away while the heavy rice fall back into the pan. Later pestles and a simple machine called a rice pounder were developed to remove hulls. In 1885 the modern rice hulling machine was invented in Brazil. During the milling processes, the hulls are removed from the raw grain to reveal whole brown rice, which is then usually milled further to remove the bran layer, resulting in white rice.

Combustion of rice hulls affords rice husk ash (acronym RHA). This ash is a potential source of amorphous reactive silica, which has a variety of applications in materials science. Most of the ash is used in the production of Portland cement.[1] When burnt completely, the ash can have a Blaine number of as much as 3,600 compared to the Blaine number of cement (between 2,800 and 3,000), meaning it is finer than cement. Silica is the basic component of sand, which is used with cement for plastering and concreting. This fine silica will provide a very compact concrete. The ash also is a very good thermal insulation material. The fineness of the ash also makes it a very good candidate for sealing fine cracks in civil structures, where it can penetrate deeper than the conventional cement sand mixture.

Rice husk ash has long been used in ceramic glazes in rice growing regions in the Far East, e.g. China and Japan.[2] Being about 95% silica, it is an easy way of introducing the necessary silica into the glaze, and the small particle size helps with an early melt of the glaze.

A number of possible uses for RHA include absorbents for oils and chemicals, soil ameliorants, a source of silicon, insulation powder in steel mills, as repellents in the form of "vinegar-tar" release agent in the ceramics industry, as an insulation material. More specialized applications include the use of this material as a catalyst support.[3]

Goodyear announced plans to use rice husk ash as a source for tire additive.[4][5]

Rice hulls are a low-cost material from which silicon carbide "whiskers" can be manufactured. The SiC whiskers are then used to reinforce ceramic cutting tools, increasing their strength tenfold.[6]

In Tamilnadu & Kerala, India, charcoal from Rice husks (Umikari in Tamil & Malayalam) were majorly used for over centuries in cleaning teeth, before toothpaste replaced it.

Rice bran oil is the oil extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice called chaff (rice husk). It is popular as a cooking oil in the Indian subcontinent and East Asian countries, including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Southern China and Malaysia.

Rice hulls can be used in brewing beer to increase the lautering ability of a mash. Rice husk is also used in one step of traditional preparation processes of Kaoliang (Sorghum) liquid. After fermentation, rice husk can be added into the wine tank to increase the void, which is advantageous for distillation.

Rice hulls can be composted, but their high lignin content can make this a slow process. Sometimes earthworms are used to accelerate the process. Using vermicomposting techniques, hulls can be converted to fertilizer in about four months.

Rice hulls that are parboiled (PBH) are used as a substrate or medium for gardening, including certain hydrocultures. The hulls decay over time. Rice hulls allow drainage,[7] and retain less water than growstones.[8] It has been shown that rice hulls do not affect plant growth regulation.[7]

Rice hulls are coated with fine-grained gunpowder and used as the main bursting charge in aerial fireworks shells.

With proper techniques, rice hulls can be burned and used to power steam engines. Some rice mills originally disposed of hulls in this way.[citation needed] Unfortunately the direct combustion of rice hulls produces large quantities of smoke. An alternative is gasification. Rice hulls are easily gasified in top-lit updraft gasifiers. The combustion of this rice hull gas produces a blue flame, and rice hull biochar makes a good soil amendment.[9]

Traditional brickmaking kilns in Mekong Delta are using rice hulls as fuel.

Rice hulls are used as a "press aid" to improve extraction efficiency of apple pressing.[10]

Rice hulls are an inexpensive byproduct of human food processing, serving as a source of fiber that is considered a filler ingredient in pet foods.[11]

Rice hulls are used as pillow stuffing. The pillows are loosely stuffed and considered therapeutic as they retain the shape of the head.

Rice hulls themselves are a class A thermal insulating material because they are difficult to burn and less likely to allow moisture to propagate mold or fungi.[12] It is also used as roofing after mixing it with mud and water.

Rice hulls are also used to make particle boards and cardboard. The silica in rice husk make the particle boards less attractive to termites.[13]

Due to high amorphous silica content, the RHA (rice husk ash) can be used as a precursor material for geopolymer concrete.[14]

To achieve the best pozzolanic properties the combustion of the husks has to be carefully controlled by keeping the temperature below 700°C and to create conditions to minimize carbon formation by feeding sufficient air.[15][16] At a given water-cement ratio, the addition of small amounts of rice hull ash (2 to 3 % of cement mass) may be useful to improve the workability of concrete mixtures by reducing the cement milk separation and segregation and increasing the strength and durability of concrete.[17] However, the introduction of large quantities of this additive may result in poor workability of the concrete mixture if strong water reducing additives are not used.[18]

An optical disc image is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system.

Each player takes a number of tricks. The player on the dealer's left starts the bidding, and the player on the dealer's right continues the bidding. The case with other variations is that no trump suit is bid during the bidding since spades are always trumps. If players don't want to bid "zero", they must bid at least one.

The standard rule in the Spades association is that the bids of the two members of each association are added together.

Two very common bidding variations are for a player or pair to bid "blind", without having looked at their cards, or a "zero" bid, indicating that they will not take a single trick during the play of the hand. If players take exactly their offer, the association will give them a bonus, but if they take more or less, they will be docked their bonus. A combined bid of two null blinds is allowed and is worth both the bonus or penalty blind and the nil blind.

In some variations, the player making a nil bid passes one or two of his cards to his partner, and the partner gets an equal number of cards from that player. Zero crossing can only be allowed if there is a blind zero. Teams must drop 100 points to make a void blind.

A four-handed game consists of thirteen tricks with the fifty-two cards, and each hand consists of a series of tricks.

The player to the left of the dealer is playing a card. The players play their cards in a clockwise direction. If possible, they should follow his example, otherwise they can play any card. If a player casts a card that leaves another player's hand, it stands and cannot be retrieved unless the player who cast the card corrects their mistake before the next player sets a card.

A rule from Hearts is that a player can't draw a spade until a spade is played. This prevents a player who has a large number of spades from leading one after the other at the start of the hand and thus prevents other players from using them as a trump. The act of playing the first spade in a hand is known as "breaking spades" and is derived from the main rule of "breaking hearts". The other players must follow the lead of the player with a sword.

The rule that a player may not draw spades at the first trick is a common variant rule.

The player who played the highest card of the led suit won the trick if he played a trump card.

The player who wins the trick assembles the cards in a face down arrangement that allows players to count the number of tricks taken. After this point, the contents of each cheat can't be seen. The number of tricks a player has won can't be hidden.

The player who wins a trick is the leader. The last trick should be the same as when all players have exhausted their hands. A crime is declared if there is no other alternative.

When a player plays off the suit when he could have done the same, a company breaks its contract and he should have. The penalty for failing to comply can vary. In most cases, the team's contract is voided and the team's score is reduced by ten points for each trick. The team can still make a contract, but must take three more tricks to do so, if they violate the rules. If the player is lying, it doesn't matter.

The bags will go against your points against the opposing team.

The hand is scored when the final trick is played.

The basic method is what follows. The players must line up their tricks from the time they played.

When a hand is complete, players count the number of tricks they took, and in the case of associations or teams, members' trick counts are added together to form a team count.

The contract is compared to the trick count. 10 points are awarded for each bid trick if the player or team took at least the number of bid tricks.

10 points are deducted for each bid trick from the team's score if the team broke their contract.

A single point will be scored for each over trick, called an "overrick", "bag" or "sandbag", if a player or team took more tricks than they bid. 7

If the player successfully did any of the more specific things they said they would do in the bidding phase, they will be added to the contract score.

There are many variations that reward or penalize. Points are awarded for basic void and blind bids.

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