Linseed oil Linseed oil Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant ("Linum usitatissimum"). The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Linseed oil is a drying oil, meaning it can polymerize into a solid form. Owing to its polymer-forming properties, linseed oil can be used on its own or blended with combinations of other oils, resins or solvents as an impregnator, drying oil finish or varnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as a plasticizer and
The Seeds of Doom The Seeds of Doom The Seeds of Doom is the sixth and final serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 6 March 1976. The serial is set in Antarctica and England. In the serial, the plant collector Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley) seeks to retrieve a malignant alien plant called a Krynoid for himself. In Antarctica, British scientists Charles Winlett and Derek Moberley discover a pod buried in the permafrost and take it back to their camp. John Stevenson, the