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Ampo is revered by the native women who are pregnant. [6]Generally, a habit of eating clay can be referred to as geophagy, which in some cultural contexts may indicate a type of disordered eating called pica.
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals [1] (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al 2 Si 2 O 5 4). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide .
The 2:1 ratio of modular bricks means that when they turn corners, a 1/2 running bond is formed without needing to cut the brick down or fill the gap with a cut brick; and the height of modular bricks means that a soldier course matches the height of three modular running courses, or one standard CMU course.
The U.S. government posted an $87 billion budget deficit in December, reduced partly by a shift of benefit payments into November but capping a record $711 billion deficit for the first three ...
Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard (0) lifts up the NBA Cup while forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), left, and center Brook Lopez (11), right, celebrate after their team's victory in the ...
Aaron Judge won his second career American League MVP award on Thursday, for a season that might have been even more impressive than the 62-homer campaign that won him his first. The New York ...
Hydrotalcite has been studied as potential getter for iodide in order to scavenge the long-lived 129 I (T 1/2 = 15.7 million years) and also other fission products such as 79 Se (T 1/2 = 327,000 years) and 99 Tc, (T 1/2 = 211,000 years) present in spent nuclear fuel to be disposed under oxidising conditions in volcanic tuff at the Yucca ...
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta [2] (Italian: [ˌtɛrraˈkɔtta]; lit. ' baked earth '; [3] from Latin terra cocta 'cooked earth'), [4] is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic [5] fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used for earthenware objects of certain types, as set out below. [5] [6]