{"id":5548,"date":"2016-10-02T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2016-10-02T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T18:09:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/02\/word-of-the-day-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

trona<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Trona<\/b> (trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrate<\/a> also sodium sesquicarbonate<\/a> dihydrate, Na2<\/sub>CO3<\/sub>\u2022NaHCO3<\/sub>\u20222H2<\/sub>O is a non-marine<\/a> evaporite<\/a> mineral<\/a>.[3]<\/a><\/sup>[4]<\/a><\/sup> It is mined<\/a> as the primary source of\u00a0sodium carbonate<\/a> in the United States, where it has replaced the\u00a0Solvay process<\/a> used in most of the rest of the world for sodium carbonate production.<\/p>\n

The word “trona” entered English by way of either Swedish (trona<\/i><\/span>) or Spanish (trona<\/i><\/span>), with both possible sources having the same meaning as in English. Both of these derive from the Arabic tr\u014dn<\/i>, which in turn derives from the Arabic natron<\/a><\/i>, and Hebrew \u05e0\u05d8\u05e8\u05df<\/span>(natruna<\/i>), which comes from ancient Greek<\/a> \u03bd\u03b9\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd<\/span> (nitron<\/i>), derived ultimately from ancient Egyptian<\/a> ntry<\/i> (or nitry<\/i>). [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And its use? Treehugger.com’s<\/strong><\/em> Katherine Martinko explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An article on Grist<\/a> recently addressed this topic, explaining how baking soda<\/strong> is mined. It comes out of the ground in the form of minerals nahcolite and trona, which are refined into soda ash (a.k.a. calcium carbonate), then turned into baking soda (a.k.a. sodium bicarbonate), among other things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Bold mine<\/strong>.) Katherine goes on to note the environmental impacts of the mining and processing of trona, vs the positives of baking soda.<\/p>\n

I was interested to see the Wikipedia’s<\/strong><\/em> entry on trona’s<\/strong><\/em> etymology:<\/p>\n

The word “trona” entered English by way of either Swedish (trona<\/i><\/span>) or Spanish (trona<\/i><\/span>), with both possible sources having the same meaning as in English. Both of these derive from the Arabic tr\u014dn<\/i>, which in turn derives from the Arabic natron<\/a><\/i>, and Hebrew \u05e0\u05d8\u05e8\u05df\u00a0<\/span>(natruna<\/i>), which comes from ancient Greek<\/a> \u03bd\u03b9\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd<\/span> (nitron<\/i>), derived ultimately from ancient Egyptian<\/a> ntry<\/i> (or nitry<\/i>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d run across natron<\/strong><\/em> as being used in ancient Egyptian mummification rituals – it helped with the drying process. So, in some sense, that baking soda you were using this morning happened to also be used in drying out human bodies millenia ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

trona: Trona (trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrate also sodium sesquicarbonate dihydrate, Na2CO3\u2022NaHCO3\u20222H2O is a non-marine evaporite mineral.[3][4] It is mined as the primary source of\u00a0sodium carbonate in the United States, where it has replaced the\u00a0Solvay process used in most of the rest of the world for sodium carbonate production. The word “trona” \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}