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    contained borax, the search led John Allen Veatch to nearby Borax Lake where the California Borax Company established the first commercial borax mining operation...
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    of Xinjiang's economy.: 23  Xinjiang was known for producing salt, soda, borax, gold, and jade in the 19th century. The Lop Lake was once a large brackish...
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    outlet, or have only a small effluent. The deposits consist of soda, potash, borax and common salt. The lake region is noted for a vast number of hot springs...
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    the past, borax and formalin is often added to beef surimi mixture to preserve the produced bakso, and also to make bakso more chewy (from borax induced...
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    washing and cleaning while awaiting a man to come and marry their ruler Pearl Borax. Monday Mountain is surrounded by a rotating fence that would only stop...
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    color is ensured by the absence of iron. Stannous chloride, citric acid, borax, or gelatin may be added to regulate the formation of the precipitate. For...
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    The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United...
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    strands. Although illegal, the practice of adding the chemical cross-linker borax to whiten noodles and improve their texture is also quite common in East...
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    various streetcar companies operating in Oakland were acquired by Francis "Borax" Smith and consolidated into what eventually became known as the Key System...
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    In the 1880s the area experienced an economic boom with the discovery of borax at Death Valley. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the...
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    and borax. The Tropico Gold Mine in Rosamond was briefly the largest goldmine in Southern California before its 1956 closure. The Pacific Coast Borax Company...
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    commercially by the manufacturers of the machine. Two common ingredients were borax and ammonia, which are mildly alkaline (having a high pH) but are relatively...
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    water. Addition of chloride gives the intensely blue [CoCl 4]2− . In a borax bead flame test, cobalt shows deep blue in both oxidizing and reducing flames...
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    Garhwali people (category Articles using infobox ethnic group with image parameters)
    one of the major corps of this area. Apart from this, cloth, while salt, borax, livestock, and wool were imported from Tibet. The administrative headquarters...
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    the annual losses within 14 years. Historically, treatments with alum and borax were used to reduce the flammability of fabric and wood, as far back as...
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    Actaeon." The comparison is made in Michael C. Astour, Hellenosemitica: an ethnic and cultural study of West Semitic impact on Mycenaean Greece (Leiden:Brill...
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    and are of high value. Known mineral resources are gold, lead, chromite, borax, and salt. In the five years from 2006–2011, Rutog County produced 72 tons...
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    Most of these were eventually bought up by the Key System of Francis "Borax" Smith who added lines and improved equipment. The Key System's streetcars...
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    November 2021, erroneous claims arose that a "detox bath" of epsom salt, borax and bentonite clay can remove the effects of the vaccine. In fact, a rapid...
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    Numerous small companies supplied the horses, mules, and wagons for hauling borax and silver ore. Stagecoaches were notoriously uncomfortable across the roadless...
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    Borax Lake Site...
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    Arab cuisine (category Cuisine by ethnicity)
    thicker, the fermented dough was leavened usually with yeast and "baker's borax" (buraq) and baked in a tandoor. One poetic verse describing this bread:...
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    Ambient Devices Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice president of Pacific Coast Borax Company Felix Zandman, founder of Vishay Intertechnology Wojciech Zaremba...
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  • University of California, Davis Borax Museum Furnace Creek Inyo High Sierra Mining Located at the Oasis at Death Valley, borax mining tools and equipment,...
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    Arlington Springs Man – (Human remains) Blackwater Draw – (Archeological site) Borax Lake Site – (Archeological site) Buhl woman – (Human remains) Calico Early...
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    resources that can be found in Hubei in significant quantities include borax, hongshiite, wollastonite, garnet, marlstone, iron, phosphorus, copper,...
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    Some charcoal briquettes may also include brown coal, mineral carbon, borax, sodium nitrate, limestone, raw sawdust, and other additives like paraffin...
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    November 14, 2013. "Rio Tinto Borax : Home". Archived from the original on June 30, 2007. Retrieved July 4, 2007. Rio Tinto Borax. Accessed July 3, 2007. "Table...
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    power system, when it powered the city of Moorpark (the government owned BORAX-III reactor had previously powered Arco, Idaho for around an hour in 1955)...
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    Widnes (section Ethnicity)
    Woodend became known as West Bank. The substances produced included soap, borax, soda ash, salt cake and bleaching powder. Other industries developed including...
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