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- California (63989 bytes)
91: ...a|San Jose]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], and is responsible for many legal and t...
93: ... shown on early maps as an island. The name comes from ''Las sergas de Esplandián'' (Adventures of Sp...
101: ...tions of Mexican California. Traders and settlers from the United States began to arrive, harbingers o...
105: ...ck plague|plague]], caused because the area lacks frosts to kill mosquitos and fleas.
107: ...] of the [[United States Navy]] sailed into [[San Francisco Bay]] and claimed California for the Unite... - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - List of minerals (11610 bytes)
76: #[[Borax]]
88: #[[Burmite]] (amber from Burma)
188: #[[Franckeite]]
189: #[[Franklinite]] (spinel group)
516: #[[Wolframite]] - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
3: ...g-term profitable ore to be mined, however, was [[borax]]; a mineral used to make [[soap]] and an importa...
6: ... and low points in Death Valley National Park.png|frame|A slice through the highest and lowest points ...
8: [[Image:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and environs]]
36: ...ns front as a result. This type of canyon results from the relatively fast uplift on this mountain ran...
38: ...le rainfall). Annual average precipitation varies from 1.90 inches (48 mm) overall below sea level to ... - Boron (9084 bytes)
44: ...conductor in room temperatures. It is never found free in nature.
49: ... of this element include the transmittance of [[infrared]] light. At standard temperatures boron is a ...
56: ...ub> ? 10[[water (molecule)|H<sub>2</sub>O]], or [[borax]], which is used in large amounts in making insul...
71: ...common salts. Borax glazes were used in [[China]] from 300 AD, and boron compounds were used in glassm...
76: ...ture in elemental form but is found combined in [[borax]], [[boric acid]], [[colemanite]], [[kernite]], [... - Sodium (8714 bytes)
53: Under extreme pressure, sodium departs from standard rules for changing to a liquid state. ...
57: ...t behavior of sodium is that this element has one free [[electron]] that is pushed closer to the other...
65: ...or lamp]]s, an efficient means of producing light from electricity.
71: ...on sodium compound named ''natrium'', which comes from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''n�on'', a kind...
79: ...ub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> ? 5H<sub>2</sub>O), and [[borax]] (Na<sub>2</sub>[[boron|B]]<sub>4</sub>O<sub>7</...
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