(n.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.
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Laterite
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(n.) An argillaceous sandstone, of a red color, and much seamed; -- found in India.
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(1) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
(2) From there they were driven north towards the village of La Macarena, a spine-crunching six-hour drive along unpaved laterite roads, where Farc has a string of training camps, some of them big enough to host 600 rebel fighters.
(3) Over 5 day incubation under flooded conditions, greater volatile loss of lindane occurred in sandy soil than in alluvial soil apparanetly due to greater adsorption to the soil colloids decreasing the insecticide concentration in the standing water on the laterite soil.
(4) Three species of snails were commonly found: Bulinus guernei was the most common, occurring in permanent habitats, Bulinus senegalensis occurring in laterite pools in the eastern part of the Middle Valley, and also in the ricefields of Guédé Chantier and Lampsar; B. forskalii was found in small numbers in Lac de Guier and Richard Toll.
(5) The intensity and prevalence of Schistosoma haematobium infection has been measured in a community in the laterite plateau area of the McCarthy Island Division, The Gambia.
(6) Some are only heaps of laterite blocks, but many are still astonishing: the towering lotus buds of Angkor Wat, the haunting Ta Prohm, in the clutches of time and strangler figs.
(7) In a search for geochemical factors that could play a role in the pathogenesis of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis, endomyocardial tissue samples obtained from patients at necropsy or operation were analysed for major elements present in laterite and monazite, which are important soil constituents of Kerala State of India.