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  2. Sea foam - Wikipedia

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    Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. [ 1 ] These compounds can act as surfactants or foaming ...

  3. Sepiolite - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Sepiolite. Sepiolite, [ 5 ] also known in English by the German name meerschaum (/ ˈmɪərʃɔːm / MEER-shawm, /- ʃəm / -⁠shəm; German: [ˈmeːɐ̯ʃaʊm] ⓘ; meaning " sea foam "), is a soft white clay mineral, often used to make tobacco pipes (known as meerschaum pipes). A complex magnesium silicate, a typical chemical ...

  4. Honeycomb toffee - Wikipedia

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    Honeycomb toffee, honeycomb candy, sponge toffee, cinder toffee, seafoam, or hokey pokey is a sugary toffee with a light, rigid, sponge-like texture. Its main ingredients are typically brown sugar (or corn syrup, molasses or golden syrup) and baking soda, sometimes with an acid such as vinegar. The baking soda and acid react to form carbon ...

  5. Meerschaum pipe - Wikipedia

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    Meerschaum pipe. A meerschaum pipe is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, also known as meerschaum. Meerschaum (German pronunciation: [ˈmeːɐ̯ʃaʊ̯m] ⓘ, German for "sea foam") is sometimes found floating on the Black Sea and is rather suggestive of sea foam (hence the German origin of the name, as well as the French name for ...

  6. Sea spray - Wikipedia

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    Connection between sea foam and sea spray formation. The dark orange line indicates processes common to the formation of both sea spray and sea foam. When wind, whitecaps, and breaking waves mix air into the sea surface, the air regroups to form bubbles, floats to the surface, and bursts at the air-sea interface. [10]

  7. Viracocha - Wikipedia

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    Some people state that Wiraqucha could mean "Fat (or foam) of the sea", [11] [21] etymology that has been discarded for grammatical considerations (constituent order in Quechua) at least since Inca Garcilaso. According to German archeologist Max Uhle, "foam lake" is an incomprehensible name.

  8. List of water deities - Wikipedia

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    The Graeae, three ancient sea spirits who personified the white foam of the sea; they shared one eye and one tooth between them. Hippocampi, the horses of the sea. The Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of centaurine sea-gods with the upper bodies of men, the lower fore-parts of horses, ending in the serpentine tails of fish.

  9. Sea glass - Wikipedia

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    Sea glass is physically polished and chemically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt water. These weathering processes produce natural frosted glass. [ 1 ] Sea glass is used for decoration, most commonly in jewellery. "Beach glass" comes from fresh water and is often less frosted in appearance than sea glass.

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