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  Natron Air - Alaska's Premiere Air Taxi on the Kenai Peninsula - Bear Viewing, Fishing, Hunting
Natron Air is a statewide air taxi service located on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula at the Soldotna Airport, and long time member of the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce.
Natron Air is owned and operated by Tim and Janet Pope, year round Alaskan residents.
You will be flying in a new GA-8 AirVan certified to the highest FAA safety standards, designed for passenger comfort, each seat with a "bubble" style window for ease of viewing wildlife and scenery.
www.natronair.com   (179 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Natron
Natron is a white, crystalline hygroscopic mineral salt, primarily a mixture of sodium bicarbonate (common baking soda) and sodium carbonate (soda ash) with small amounts of sodium chloride (table salt) and sodium sulfate.
Natron is somewhat antiseptic and is also an exfoliant and a desiccant.
Natron is superior to salt as a drying agent because it chemically attacks and destroys grease and fat.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Natron   (773 words)

  
 Ramsar Sites Database
Lake Natron basin is situated in Ngorongoro and Monduli districts within the Arusha region, in northern Tanzania contiguous with the Kenyan border.
Lake Natron is a representative example of a Rift Valley soda lake in East Africa.
Lake Natron is situated in a closed basin and acts as a sink for numerous seasonal and a few perennial streams, and about 28 mainly saline springs.
www.wetlands.org /reports/dbdirectory.cfm?site_id=107   (1009 words)

  
 Sample RIS -- United Republic of Tanzania, Lake Natron Basin, 2001
Lake Natron is a soda lake of variable extent situated in the bottom of the Rift Valley basin (Gregory Rift) and surrounded by Rift Valley escarpments and volcanic mountains whereof the mountain of Oldonyo Lengai in the south is still active.
The bottom of the Lake Natron basin, which is situated at about 600m, comprises lagoons, soda flats and lakeshore environments such as springs, seasonal or permanent rivers and streams.
Lake Natron is situated in a closed basin and act as a sink for numerous seasonal and a few perennial streams and about 28 mainly saline springs; most water to the lake basin comes from rainfall, however, the arid conditions prevail due to a negative precipitation/evaporation balance.
www.ramsar.org /ris/ris_tanzania_natron.htm   (3630 words)

  
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Natron is found in quantity naturally in the beds of several Egyptian playa lakes.
Natron does not form from the evaporation of sea water, where most of the sodium present would be tied up as halite (NaCl).
Natron is superior to salt as a drying agent because it chemically attacks and destroys grease and fat.
www.uwrf.edu /~wc01/Natron.html   (438 words)

  
 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Natron is a hydrated sodium carbonate mineral with the formula Na In color it is white to colorless when pure, varying to gray or yellow with impurities.
Natron has also been known to be used as a cleansing product for the home as well as the body which includes the teeth and was used as an early mouthwash.
Natron was used to make ceramics and glass as well as to solder precious metals together.
www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=natron   (388 words)

  
 Egypt: Beauty Salts
A crucial component of this process was a carbonate salt, known as natron.
The use of natron, however, was not reserved for the dead.
There is no indication whether natron would be recognized as enhancing that process in old Egypt, although there were concerns that the dead would be able to function in that manner in the next life.
www.touregypt.net /featurestories/salt.htm   (931 words)

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