Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 118 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 1098 Soil Global Resources . End Uses of Soda Ash Source Data from the . Geological Survey Mineral Commodity Summaries 2009. . Government Printing Office 2009. Note Other includes flue gas desulfurization water treatment pulp and paper distributors and miscellaneous uses. Uses of Soda Ash A fundamental industrial chemical soda ash is used in the manufacture of glass ceramics glazes enamels chemicals soaps and detergents and paints. It serves as a flux in assaying and as a cleansing agent. It is also used in processing wood pulp to make paper refining aluminum desulfurizing pig iron purifying petroleum and softening water. Karen N. Kahler Further Reading Dyni John R. and Richard W. Jones. Proceedings of the First International Soda Ash Conference Utilization of Natural Resources of Sodium Carbonate into the Next Century. Laramie Wyoming State Geological Survey 1998. Garrett Donald E. Natural Soda Ash Occurrences Processing and Use. New York Van Nostrand Reinhold 1992. Jensen Mead L. and Alan M. Bateman. Economic Mineral Deposits. 3d ed. New York Wiley 1979. Kogel Jessica Elzea et al. eds. Soda Ash. In Industrial Minerals and Rocks Commodities Markets and Uses. 7th ed. Littleton Colo. Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration 2006. Royal Society of Chemistry. Sodium Carbonate A Versatile Material. London Author 2000. Web Site . Geological Survey Soda Ash Statistics and Information http minerals pubs commodity soda_ash See also Carbonate minerals Evaporites Glass Paper Sedimentary processes rocks and mineral deposits. Soil Category Ecological resources Soil is a product of the physical and chemical breakdown of the Earth s surface into small fragments including sand silt and clay. Soil is also the product of organic matter decomposition the composting of dead plant and animal debris. Soils are classified on the basis of soil profile and soilformation. They can be grouped according to a number of characteristics including agronomic use
