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• List of World Health Organization Essential Medicines
  * [[Aluminium hydroxide]] * [[Magnesium hydroxide]]
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• Potassium chloride
  ...lotation process|flotation]] or [[electrostatic]] separation from suitable minerals. It is a by-product of the making of [[nitric acid]] from [[potassium nitra ...a chemical [[feedstock]] it is used for the [[manufacture]] of [[potassium hydroxide]] and [[potassium]] metal. It is also used in medicine, [[Science|scientifi
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• Mercury (element)
  {{See also|:Category:Mercury minerals|:Category:Mercury mines}} ...;kg) flask.<ref name="brooks_usgs">{{cite web|url=http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/mercury/mercumcs07.pdf|format=PDF|title=Mercury|author=Brook
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• Magnesium sulfate
  Magnesium sulfates are common minerals in geological environments. Their occurrence is mostly connected with [[sup ...tion is electrolyzed with a copper anode to form copper sulfate, magnesium hydroxide, and hydrogen:
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• Sodium chloride
  ...many (16.5), India (15.8) and Canada (14.0).<ref>[http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/salt/mcs-2010-salt.pdf Salt], U.S. Geological Survey</ref> ...bath products. It is the major source of industrial chlorine and [[sodium hydroxide]], and used in almost every industry.
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• Layered double hydroxides
  [[Hydrotalcite]] is a layered double hydroxide of [[Chemical formula|general formula]] (Mg₆Al₂(CO<su [[Category:Minerals]]
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• Fougerite
  ...ically and structurally related to so-called green rust, hydrotalcite-like minerals ([[hydrotalcite]], [[pyroaurite]], [[iowaite]], [[manasseite]]) and other [ ...sub>4</sub>^2- and other. Fougerite is unique among other [[clay minerals]] due to having a positive layer charge.
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• Factors of polymer weathering
  ...n acknowledged as it is a natural and universal phenomenon (metals, glass, minerals and other inorganic materials age as well). Among the environmental paramet ...a catalyst for continued activity, thus repeating the chalking cycle. The hydroxide and perhydroxyl radical then cause oxidative decomposition of the binder wi
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• Vermiculite
  *[[List of minerals]] [[Category:Magnesium minerals]]
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• Lime (material)
  ...]]s predominate. Strictly speaking, lime is [[calcium oxide]] or [[calcium hydroxide]]. It is also the name for a single mineral (native lime) of the CaO compos ...ill strongly [[alkaline]]) ''slaked lime'' or ''hydrated lime'' ([[calcium hydroxide]], Ca(OH)₂), the process of which is called ''slaking of lime''.
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• Stone sealer
  ...tually suck in liquids over time, along with any dissolved salts and other minerals. Very porous stone, such as sandstone will absorb liquids relatively quickl ...e of cement based mortar being used to fix the stone in place free calcium hydroxide is leached out onto the surface. Here it reacts with carbon dioxide in the
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• Hydraulic lime
  ...set without exposure to air. Any unreacted calcium is slaked to [[calcium hydroxide]]. Hydraulic lime is used for providing a faster initial set than ordinary ...set, compared to 100% of CO₂ being reabsorbed by pure [[calcium hydroxide]] (fat lime putty).
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• Iron
  {{See also cat|Iron minerals}} ...t of the iron in the crust is found combined with oxygen as [[iron oxide]] minerals such as [[hematite]] and [[magnetite]]. Large deposits of iron are found in
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• Manganese
  ...ate|free element]] in nature (often in combination with iron), and in many minerals. As a free element, manganese is a metal with important industrial metal al The origin of the name manganese is complex. In ancient times, two black minerals from [[Magnesia]] in what is now modern Greece were both called ''magnes'',
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• Asbestos
  ...ble" or "inextinguishable") is a set of six naturally occurring [[silicate minerals]] exploited commercially for their desirable physical properties. They all Six minerals are defined by the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] as "as
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• Chromium
  ...rn Africa.<ref name="USGS2002CR">{{cite web|url = http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/chromium/mcs-2009-chrom.pdf|publisher = United States Geolog ...[[Pourbaix diagram]] for chromium in pure water, perchloric acid or sodium hydroxide:<ref name="Crspeci"/><ref name="medusa">Ignasi Puigdomenech, ''Hydra/Medusa
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• Cadmium
  ...]] ''καδμεία'' meaning "[[calamine]]", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος [[Cad ...Res.MinYB1956v1.p0289&id=EcoNatRes.MinYB1956v1&isize=XL&q1=cadmium|title = Minerals Yearbook 1956: Cadmium|first = Arnold M.|last = Lansche|accessdate = 2008-0
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• Beryllium
  ...element, beryllium is found naturally only combined with other elements in minerals. Notable gemstones which contain beryllium include [[beryl]] ([[Aquamarine ...to separate the aluminium from the beryllium by dissolving the [[aluminium hydroxide]] in an additional [[alkali]]. Vauquelin named the new element "glucinum"
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• Chlorine
  ...y of chlorine in water is increased if the water contains dissolved alkali hydroxide, and in this way, [[chlorine bleach]] is produced. {{See also category|Halide minerals}}
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• Mining
  ...equired expeditions abroad to the area of Wadi Maghara in order "to secure minerals and other resources not available in Egypt itself."<ref name="Shaw">Shaw, I ...into]]. In Great Britain the natives had [[Mining in Roman Britain|mined]] minerals for millennia ,<ref>[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2
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