High levels of evaporation have left behind natron ( sodium carbonate decahydrate ) and trona ( sodium sesquicarbonate dihydrate ).
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There was over 175 kg of natron in the chamber, some inside the coffins and some inside little sacks.
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The Natron Cutoff is on the National Register of Historic Places, considered significant to the period 1905 to 1945.
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The inner caldera contains large natron deposits which see some harvesting for domestic animal salt lick use by the local people.
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Over a million birds that formerly bred at Elmenteita are now said to have sought refuge at Lake Natron in Tanzania.
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Its method is more advanced than traditional mummification, which involved a salt-like preservative called natron and yards of linen.
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The Trou au Natron and Doon Kidimi craters have formed even more recently, with the former dissecting the earlier Toussid?calderas.
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Sources of alkali could either have been natron from areas such as Wadi Natroun and El-Kab, or plant ash.
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After cleansing, the body was then dried out with natron inside the empty body cavity as well as outside on the skin.
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The fundamental compositional difference between Western silica-natron glass and the unique Chinese lead glass, however, may indicate an autonomous development.
