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Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of sodium carbonate decahydrate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >· 10H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, a kind of soda ash ) and about 17 % sodium bicarbonate ( also called nahcolite or baking soda, NaHCO < sub > 3 </ sub >) along with small quantities of sodium chloride and sodium sulfate.
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Natron and is
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is the largest breeding site for the threatened Lesser Flamingo, a huge community of which nest in the salt marshes of the lake.
Just to the south of Lake Natron is Ol Doinyo Lengai (), the world's only active volcano to produce natrocarbonatite lava.
Natron is white to colourless when pure, varying to gray or yellow with impurities.
Natron is an ingredient for making a distinct color called Egyptian blue.
Natron is also the mineralogical name for the compound sodium carbonate decahydrate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >· 10H < sub > 2 </ sub > O ), which is the main component in historical natron.
Lake Natron is where two thirds of Lesser Flamingos reproduce.
The population in the two key east African lakes, Nakuru and Bogoria, have been adversely affected in recent years by suspected heavy metal poisoning, while its primary African breeding area in Lake Natron is currently under threat by a proposed soda ash plant by Tata Chemicals.
Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of the East African Rift.
Lake Natron is a safe breeding location because its caustic environment is a barrier against predators trying to reach their nests on seasonally-forming evaporite islands.
A new threat to Lake Natron is the proposed development of a soda ash plant on its shores.
The group working under the umbrella name Lake Natron Consultative Group is being co-ordinated by Ken Mwathe, Conservation Programme Manager at BirdLife International's Africa Secretariat.
As per communication as on June 2008 Tata Chemicals shall not proceed with the Natron Project and further re-examination of this project will be subject to the Ramsar Wetlands plan, which is currently under preparation.
It is located in the eastern Rift Valley, or Gregory Rift, south of both Lake Natron and Kenya.
Lake Magadi is the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, lying in a catchment of faulted volcanic rocks, north of Tanzania's Lake Natron.
Natron and sodium
Natron historically had several important industrial and household uses, later eclipsed by other sodium compounds.
Natron and Na
* Natron Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >· 10 ( H < sub > 2 </ sub > O )
Natron and soda
* Lake Natron, shallow soda lake which has categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the East African halophytics ecoregion.
Natron and ash
B. Dawson and G. C. Clark — who visited the crater a week later, reported seeing “ a thick column of black ash ” that rose for approximately three thousand feet above the volcano and drifted away northwards towards Lake Natron.
Natron and also
The site also has major additional significance, because of the presence of Lake Natron and the volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, which have immense ecological, geological and cultural value.
Natron and with
Natron was added to castor oil to make a smokeless fuel, which allowed Egyptian artisans to paint elaborate artworks inside ancient tombs without staining them with soot.
Natron and .
The rift runs north – south from Lake Turkana in the north south past Mount Kenya and Lake Magadi and on to Lake Natron and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
The Engaresero village on the Western shores of Lake Natron has been chosen by the government of Tanzania to exemplify the Maasai pastoral system given its singularity, integrity, high diversity of habitats and biodiversity.
On the floor of the rift are a number of large salt lakes, including Natron in the north, Manyara in the south, and Eyasi in the southwest.
Trade between Elim and Eilat furnished Frankincense and Myrrh, brought up from Ethiopia and Punt ; Bitumen and Natron, from the Dead Sea ; finely woven Linen, from Byblos ; and copper amulets, from Timna ; all mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
Natron deposits are sometimes found in saline lake beds which arose in arid environments.
Natron can be used to dry and preserve fish and meat.
Oakride was a station on Southern Pacific's Cascade subdivision, a line that goes over the Cascades Mountains and over the Cascade Summit via the Natron Cutoff that was built in 1926, the railroad played an integral part of the economy and lifestyle in Oakridge, and today the Union Pacific Railroad operates the rails, and trains are still a common sight in Oakridge.
In 1964 on his second Lake Natron expedition, Richard met an archaeologist named Margaret Cropper.
On the other hand, environmental activists are opposing the plant because it would be near Lake Natron, and it could possibly affect the lake's ecosystem and its neighbouring dwellers.
Home of an ancient city and the temple containing Natron.
It occurs at Lake Natron near Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania and Suswa Volcano, Lake Magadi, Kenya.
Thebes used Nubian gold or Nub from her conquests south into Kush to facilitate the purchase of Frankincense, Myrrh, Bitumen, Natron, Juniper oil, Linen, and Copper amulets for the mummification industry at Karnak.
In Africa, where they are most numerous, the Lesser Flamingos breed principally on the highly caustic Lake Natron in northern Tanzania.
Breeding occurred at Lake Magadi in Kenya in 1962 when Lake Natron was unsuitable due to flooding.
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The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.
This, naturally, will be difficult to do since both the archaeological and place-name evidence in this period, with some fortunate exceptions, is insufficient for precise chronological purposes.
A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.
The amount paid by the oil company to Tri-State for the use of its oil distribution system and the privilege of supplying all the homes, is subject to negotiation but naturally must be profitable to both parties.
Quite naturally, there is a greater availability of those models which are manufactured within a specific country.
Since most European cars average more miles per gallon of gasoline than American cars, it naturally follows that the cost per kilometer for these models will be less, but the greater seating capacity of the large American cars will equalize this, provided your group is sufficiently large to fill a 7-passenger limousine.
The one sure way to tell victim and villain apart is to examine the hind legs which in the case of the idler, Psithyrus, lack the pollen baskets -- naturally!!
There is some evidence that naturally occurring goitrogens may play a role in the development of goitre, particularly in Tasmania and Australia ( Clements and Wishart, 1956 ).
Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.
Sprouting is a naturally occurring phenomenon in stored potatoes, onions, carrots, beets, and similar root vegetables.
The most important factor in determining what properties the end-product will have is quite naturally the type of hydroxyl-rich compound that is used in its production.
He is not prepared for it -- naturally, nobody is -- and, what is possibly much more to the point, he is exposed, as few white people are, to the anguish of the black people around him.
The solution, naturally, is the bus.
The English saints are widely venerated, quite naturally, and now there is great hope that the Forty Martyrs and Cardinal Newman will soon be canonized.
Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.
His matchmaking is, naturally, incidental, and it only serves Flynn right when a determined widow takes him by the ear and leads him off to matrimony.
Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.
Six astatine isotopes, with mass numbers of 214 to 219, are present in nature as the products of various decay routes of heavier elements, but neither the most stable isotope of astatine ( with mass number 210 ) nor astatine-211 ( which is used in medicine ) is produced naturally.
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