Lake Magadi is located inward the Great Rift Valley , inward southern Republic of Kenya , inward a vast low whose bed is made nearly exclusively of company or semisolid soda. This saline , alkaline metal lake of around 100 foursquare kilometers inward size , is composed of a dense sodium carbonate brine which precipitates vast quantities of the mineral trona (sodium sesquicarbonate) , the raw stuff for soda ash or exactly sodium carbonate. In places , the tabular array salt is upwardly to twoscore meters thick. This trona is collected together with purified past times the Magadi Soda Company together with the resulting soda ash is sold for a multifariousness of uses including drinking glass manufacturing , cloth dyeing together with newspaper production. Lake Magadi is amid the few places inward the globe where trona forms naturally , together with is the largest origin of natural soda ash inward Africa.
Lake Natron were united every minute a unmarried larger lake.
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