The country has deposits of coal, opal, gemstones, kaolin, iron ore, soda ash, and tantalum, but only gold is mined in significant quantities.

For example, Lake Magadi has high concentrations of soda ( sodium carbonate ) and Lake Elmenteita, Lake Bogoria, and Lake Nakuru are all strongly alkaline, while the freshwater springs supplying Lake Naivasha are essential to support its current biological variety.

A soft drink ( also called soda, pop, coke, soda pop, fizzy drink, tonic, seltzer, mineral, has uncovered additional FDA test results that showed the following results: Of 24 samples of diet soda tested between 1995 and 2001 for the presence of benzene, 19 ( 79 %) had amounts of benzene in excess of the federal tap water standard of 5 ppb.

An important subdivision of these contains a very high percentage of alkalis, especially soda, and consequently has minerals such as nepheline and leucite not common in other rocks.

Mono Lake ( ) is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760, 000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean.

* borosilicate Borosilicate glass, also known as pyrex, is useful because it has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion and is resistant to cracking when heated, unlike soda glass.

After walking into town, he sees that it apparently has not changed since he was a boy, including the drugstore with a soda fountain that still sells sodas for a dime, and whose proprietor ( whom Sloan remembers as having died ) is, unbeknownst to him, still alive.

In modern mineralogy the term natron has come to mean only the sodium carbonate decahydrate ( hydrated soda ash ) which makes up most of the historical salt.

Springfield Drug still has an old fashioned soda fountain.

Pumpkin house owner Ric Griffith is also longtime owner of the Griffith and Feil Drug Store, an old time drug store with an authentic early 20th century soda fountain which he has totally restored.

Rubbing baking soda or chalk against the teeth has also been common practice in history.

Because baking soda will absorb musty smells, it has become a tried-and-true method for used-book sellers when making books less malodorous.

Being an expanding industrial city, the government has revolutionised and libertised various markets, allowing the caustic soda, cotton ginning and pressing, flour mills, fruit juices, general engineering, iron and steel re-rolling mills, looms, oil mills, poultry feed, sugar, textile spinning, textile weaving, vegetable ghee and cooking oil industries to flourish.

Carbonated water ( also known as club soda, soda water, sparkling water, seltzer or fizzy water ) is water into which carbon dioxide gas under pressure has been dissolved, a process that causes the water to become effervescent.

Generally, seltzer water has no added sodium salts, while club soda still retains the sodium salts.

In many parts of the US, soda has come to mean any type of sweetened, carbonated soft drink.

Adding soda water to quality Scotch whisky has been deprecated by whisky lovers, but was a popular lunchtime drink or early evening pre-dinner or pre-theater drink until the late part of the 20th century.

Social drinking changed with the counter-culture movement of the 1970s and the arrival of new bottled and canned beverages in the 1980s, and soda water has declined in popularity.

He also has published articles in the areas of skepticism ( e. g. ESP and Nostradamus ), psychology ( e. g. temporal lobe epilepsy and genius ), and technical speculation ( e. g. “ What if scientists had found a computer in 1900 ?” and “ An informal survey on the scientific and social impact of a soda can-sized super-super computer ”).

In " The Bots and the Bees ," he has a sexual encounter with a soda vending machine that leads to the birth of a son whom he names Ben.

Safeco Field has an extensive food and beverage selection above and beyond the traditional ballpark fare of hot dogs, pizza, soda, and beer.

Most recipes substitute bottled pineapple juice for fresh juice ; soda water has to be added for foam.

The judge identified that rather than being merely chicken fried in a pan, McNuggets included elements not utilized by the home cook, including the unusual sounding ingredients like: extracts of rosemary, vitamins ( niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid ), leavening ( baking soda, calcium lactate, etc.

Alcopops tend to be sweet and served in small bottles ( typically 330 ml in Europe and 355 ml, the normal size of a soda pop can, in North America ), and between 4 % and 7 % alcohol by volume.

As well they could obtain glass beads for decoration, wheat flour and baking soda for making bannock / fry bread, molasses as a sweet treat, machine-woven cloth for making clothing, gunpowder for their guns, horses for transportation, woollen point blankets for warmth and protection, and tobacco for smoking and chewing.

An Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit popular in Australia and New Zealand made using rolled oats, flour, desiccated coconut, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda and boiling water.

It is used alongside the equally common form Gespritzter ( mostly pronounced G ' spritzter, a noun derived from the past participle of spritzen, i. e. squirt ), a term also found in some German regions, such as Hessen ( e. g. Süssgespritzter, i. e. a " sweet spritzer " using fizzy lemonade instead of soda water (" Sauergespritzter ").

** Called a clara or clara con limón, it is made with sweet carbonated lemon soda ( clara is clear lemonade ).

** In some other parts of Spain, a mixture of beer and sweet lemon-lime soda is called a champú ( shampoo ).

The Berliner Weisse mit Schuss is made from a light Weißbier ( white beer ) mixed with a Schuss ( shot ) of sweet syrup instead of soda.

In Utah, the bread products locally called " scones " are similar to Native American frybread and are made from a sweet yeast dough, with buttermilk and baking powder and / or soda added, and they are fried rather than baked.

Teh botol, bottled sweet jasmine tea, is now quite popular and locally competes favorably with international bottled soda beverages such as Coca Cola and Fanta.

Cream soda is a high-calorie sweet carbonated soft drink, often flavored with vanilla.

Moustokoúloura (" must cookies ") is a popular Greek variety of soda cookies or biscuits whose sweet dough is made by kneading flour, olive oil, and must.

Unlike today's thick, ice cream like consistency, the original milkshakes were made with sweet cream ( sometimes frozen as " ice cream "), a whole egg, flavored syrup and soda water.

Other sweet soda-and milk-based beverages include the Vietnamese soda sữa hột gà, a beverage prepared with sweetened condensed milk, egg yolk, and soda water.

Multiple artificial sweeteners can be used to give diet soda a sweet taste without the sugar.

Due to the carbonation, Federweißer tastes quite refreshing, not unlike a light grape soda or a sweet sparkling wine.

Bottle Caps have a sweet but slightly sour taste to them, not wholly dissimilar to Ce De Candy, Inc .' s Smarties ( Rockets outside the U. S .), SweeTarts or Runts, but with soda flavors and altered shapes.

* Americano ( cocktail ), a cocktail composed of Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda

Born around 1905 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her father, Will Potter, owned a sweet shop and soda fountain with the slogan " You can lick our cones, but you can't beat our sodas !".

Since artificial sweeteners are excreted in urine, consuming artificial sweetener ( such as in diet soda ) before engaging in urophagia can lend a sweet taste to the urine, which may be of particular interest to those performing the activity for sexual pleasure.

In the United States, it is best known for its use in whiskey cocktails: the Old Fashioned, made with whiskey, bitters, sugar, and soda water, and The Manhattan, made usually with rye whiskey and sweet vermouth.