#natron

Озеро Натрон, превращающее животных в застывшие изваяния.

Озеро Натрон находится на севере Танзании, на границе с Кенией, недалеко от Национального парка Серенгети и заповедника Нгоронгоро. Озеро Натрон занимает площадь 56 км (35 миль) в длину и 24 км (15 миль) в ширину, но уровень воды меняется из-за испарения.

Вода из озера Натрон в Танзании буквально разъедает кожу, как только вы к ней прикоснетесь. Если хоть немного искупаться здесь - то кожа покроется волдырями и ожогами. Красивая корочка состоит из чрезвычайно агрессивного щелочного минерала с pH почти 12! Это почти в два раза выше здорового показателя для человека. И выше уровня аммиака, у которого pH всего 11. Мелкие животные, которые ненароком спускаются к воде, редко выживают даже после небольшого контакта с водой. Дождь, который идет в этих местах, называют призрачным. Потому что большая его часть испаряется, не долетев до поверхности. 

Из озера Натрон вода не вытекает. В нее впадает одна река, а большую часть воды оно получает из родников и мелких ручейков. Однако вода просачивается через вулканическое вещество, где и обогащается щелочью. Озеро Натрон содержит очень много соли, соды и магнезита. Поверхность озера покрыта тонкой коркой соли. Вода здесь не всегда такая красная. Окрашивается она из-за деятельности микроорганизмов, которые прекрасно себя чувствуют в этой очень соленой воде. Явление это не постоянное. Происходит только когда вода испаряется и озеро становится максимально насыщенным щелочной солью - любимой средой здешних микроорганизмов.

У озера есть пресная и соленая части. Но будущая плотина может уничтожить соленую часть озера Здесь размножаются бактерии - им такой состав нипочем. Главная причина гибели здешних животных - именно бактерии, которые попадают в организм вместе с водой. Единственный представитель местной фауны, кто не боится этих бактерий - фламинго. Для фламинго это идеальное место. Они питаются местными водорослями, а "красная вода" является барьером для хищников. Поэтому на фламинго здесь почти никто не охотится.

Здесь умудряются выживать даже рыбы - к этой воде приспособилось два вида тиляпий. Вода в озере очень горячая - температура иногда поднимается до 50 ° C. Всему виной горячие источники. Однако у этого уникального природного объекта есть все шансы исчезнуть с лица земли. Власти здесь планируют построить гидроэлектростанцию и плотину. Соленая часть озера может исчезнуть, так как ее зальет пресной водой. Соленую воду же хотят использовать для добычи карбонат калия и перерабатывать ее в стиральный порошок. Опасность эти инициативы представляют для малых фламинго. Оказывается, 75% этих птиц появляются на свет именно на берегах этого озера.

Lake Natron, which turns animals into frozen sculptures.

Lake Natron is located in northern Tanzania, on the border with Kenya, near the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Lake Natron is 56 km (35 mi) long and 24 km (15 mi) wide, but the water level changes due to evaporation.

The water from Lake Natron in Tanzania literally corrodes the skin as soon as you touch it. If you swim here even a little, your skin will be covered in blisters and burns. The beautiful crust consists of an extremely aggressive alkaline mineral with a pH of almost 12! This is almost twice as high as the healthy level for humans. And higher than the level of ammonia, which has a pH of only 11. Small animals that inadvertently go down to the water rarely survive even a short contact with the water. The rain that falls in these places is called ghost rain. Because most of it evaporates before it reaches the surface.

There is no water flowing out of Lake Natron. One river flows into it, and it gets most of its water from springs and small streams. However, the water seeps through volcanic matter, where it is enriched with alkali. Lake Natron contains a lot of salt, soda and magnesite. The surface of the lake is covered with a thin crust of salt. The water here is not always so red. It is colored due to the activity of microorganisms that feel great in this very salty water. This phenomenon is not constant. It only occurs when the water evaporates and the lake becomes maximally saturated with alkaline salt - the favorite environment of local microorganisms.

The lake has a fresh and salty part. But the future dam can destroy the salty part of the lake. Bacteria multiply here - they do not care about such a composition. The main reason for the death of local animals is the bacteria that enter the body along with the water. The only representative of the local fauna that is not afraid of these bacteria is the flamingo. This is an ideal place for flamingos. They feed on local algae, and the "red water" is a barrier for predators. Therefore, almost no one hunts flamingos here. Even fish manage to survive here - two species of tilapia have adapted to this water. The water in the lake is very hot - the temperature sometimes rises to 50 ° C. Hot springs are to blame. However, this unique natural object has every chance of disappearing from the face of the earth. The authorities are planning to build a hydroelectric power station and a dam here. The salty part of the lake may disappear, as it will be flooded with fresh water. They want to use the salt water to extract potassium carbonate and process it into washing powder. These initiatives pose a danger to lesser flamingos. It turns out that 75% of these birds are born on the shores of this lake.

Get it? RC Remote control, she's a tactician while on earth

Arcee used to be a teacher's assistant, having a good relationship with ratchet and wheeljack, she cashed in on a couple of favors with them once she got to earth, getting her alt mode heavily modified with all the bells and whistles, she's a nurturing bot but she has her oddities, a wierd girl, energetic and risk-taking, she's super passionate about her interests, namely drones, she knows everything there is to know about them and has a massive collection that dates back to functionist government era.

She doesn't really get the political stuff. She's just really into drones. And is an expert at multi-tasking. the other guys in the tactical division left. Meaning arcee has to do the job of three people all by herself, but she's doing fine, actually

This is thanks to the small slice of her collection that she has brought to earth, 40 individual drones in 4 models all at the autobot's beck and call, most commonly seen are the natron drones, used to create holographic drivers for when the autobots are in public

The natron drones are sold exclusively as a two pack with the freezon drones. These drones are able to project "holomatter" invisible force fields used in tandem with the natron drones to make more realistic ilusions. They were designed by two lovers on opposite sides of the war

A more general use type drone, Fastlane drones do simple labor and repetitive manual tasks, these drones are of velocitronian design, they and a few other velocitronian drone models operate the functions of velocitron that it's population of racers are too "busy" to do

The cloudraker drones, also of velocitron, clean up the pollution that is caused by a race of cars by running ON carbon emissions themselves, similar to earth plants. On earth, they can also shield the autobots from detection by mechanical means. Nullifying video equipment and removing evidence to get rid of the autobot's digital footprint on arcee's command

April 25, 2026:

Cinnamon Tertiary, Bogsneak, Ringlets.

With the recent heatwave and overall generally hot Australian summer upon me, I thought it would be a great time to try and make some homemade natron.

What is Natron?

It is a naturally occurring mineral found in dried out lake beds and was used greatly during ancient times, especially in Egypt.

It was used in a multitude of ways including: to soften water for washing clothes, as a mouthwash, as an antiseptic, and all the way to the mummification process (assisting in drying out the bodies).

It was used during rituals to purify the priest before the stood before the gods. It’s this reason I wanted to make some- to help me better connect to the Netjeru I work with.

How to make it:

You need equal parts table salt and bicarbonate soda, mixed together in a shallow dish. Add enough water to just cover the mix and stir well. It won’t fully devolve, but you want to make sure everything is thoroughly wet and mixed.

Then leave the mixture in the sun or a warm spot until it completely dries out. This can take days to weeks depending on the weather.

Once fully dry, scrape it off the dish. You can leave it as is, or crush it into a powder.

How to use?

I plan to both give it as an offering as well as use it to purify myself before ritual work, bringing myself into a state of w’ab (𓃂 𓈗 ) or “being clean”.

To do so, I plan to add a small amount to a bowl of water and use that to wash my hands. As I wash my hands, I will state that “I am purified”.

This is actually the first batch of the last color palettes I'm doing since I had 10 palettes left so I decided to split them up so I'm posting the first 5 first while I finish the last ones! I'm convinced I like drawing Ty angry and I always have fun drawing Natron.

The BLOSC ocs featured this time around are:

Astrid belongs to @silentspacenstuff

Whiz belongs to @pumpkin-fr0g

so my understanding is that they had the concept of "pellets" or "grains" of natron, and that you'd plop a certain number of these grains/pellets into the water and that's how you'd figure out how much. when i've made my own natron, it did naturally break apart into little bits that might constitute as grains/pellets, and you could potentially measure yours that way, too.

so when i'd do it, i would probably stick one little grains worth in (maybe about the equivalent of a grain of rice or so) and call it a day.

however, i hate the taste of natron, and i'm not a huge fan of shoving it in my mouth. as you mentioned, sodium bicarbonate isn't good for your teeth, and i've spent way too much time trying to fix my teeth to subject them to stuff that's not good for them.

so it'd be my suggestion to just rinse your mouth out with water and call it a day. if you want something that's beneficial for the mouth, you could eat a spry/xylitol mint or something, to cleanse the mouth both figuratively and literally (xylitol sugar breaks down a lot of the bacteria that cause cavities in the mouth).

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Back with the BLOSC:BI Lore cuz I'm hyperfixating .

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Like, come on, Ancient evil deserves to be a two parted episode, there's SO MUCH LORE GOING ON .

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So anyways I'm obviously giving Natron more importance in my AU because i can . Also because it's interesting since Nuctonoxians( the specie that includes Ivy, Stardust and Arsène ) used to worship him(and some still do ).

I'm giving Natron more importance in my AU cuz why not lol

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