Talk:Natron

message: This sentence coudl use a rephrasing as Natron does not exactly 'eat' does it?
It ate the flesh-eating bacteria that would decompose the body.
:Natron kills microbes through both its severe drying action and high pH. Gwen Gale 01:13, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rephrase

message: The "Use in Antiquity" section mentions "At the same time the bicarbonate...".
What bicarbonate?  The foreward for Natron only describes sodium carbonate decahydrate; no bicarbonate at all.  However, the Wikipedia entry for Sodium Carbonate refers to natron as "a combination of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate" (which is more in line with what I thought natron is).  Which is correct?  Is natron exclusively Na2(CO3)•10(H2O)? Or is it a blend of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate? (If so, is this combination what I sometimes see referred to as sodium sesquicarbonate?)
68.188.197.199 15:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mostly a mixture of these two minerals, I've put this in the text. Gwen Gale 08:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I've seen some "mineral buff" websites which describe natron as simple hydrated sodium carbonate, they're mistaken. Gwen Gale 03:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's true, I'd since learned there are parallel nomenclatures. Thanks for writing this clarification. Gwen Gale (talk) 15:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bicarbonate?

message: The picture (Natron-3.jpg) shows a Norwegian bag labeled "natron", but the Norwegian term natron is equivalent to what the rest of the world calls baking soda, so the picture is misleading. This is also stated in its description, which translates to "Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) leavening agent".Johslarsen (talk) 21:54, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Removed the image. Brycehughes (talk) 22:48, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading image

message: I've moved the following text here:
Typical impurities include 1.2% silica, 1.5% lime, 0.6% potash, 0.6% magnesia, 0.6% alumina and 0.7% iron oxide.
These seem so precise as to be limited to a single geographical location or region. Either way, is there a supporting citation? Gwen Gale (talk) 19:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Impurities

message: which derived from the Ancient Egyptian word netjeri meaning Sodium
The ancient Egyptians had a word for sodium?  I seriously doubt that.  I imagine that the word meant "natron", which is quite different. 68.239.116.212 (talk) 11:28, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for spotting that, yes, the text got muddled somewhere along the way. Gwen Gale (talk) 13:26, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Yep, hadn't looked at this article in a long time, I've rm'd the hieroglyphic as unsourced. Gwen Gale (talk) 17:17, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I removed this:
 nahcolitewebmineral.com, "Nahcolite", retrieved 5 July 2008 or
on the idea that the mineral name refers to a crystal mineral form that was first described in 1928, so it doesn't refer to just any occurrence of bicarbonate of soda.
84.226.175.219 (talk) 23:02, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  True or not? 

message: The image stated as being "A faience vase fabricated in part from natron, dating to the New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1450–1350 BC)" actually shows an example of pattern formed, polychrome glass.
This is supported by the image information: File:Egyptian - "Malqata Kateriskos" Vessel - Walters 4732 - Profile.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
I am more than happy to provide images of faience items, from the collection of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, if required. Glen D Parry (talk) 23:38, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading Image