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Natron
Natron is a naturally occurring mixture of sodium salts, used historically in cleaning, preservation, glassmaking and medicine. Deposits in the Sahara and Sahel made it a trade good. It was among the commodities carried north from the Wadai Empire along the Darb al-Arba'in, the forty-day caravan route to Egypt.
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