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(reha) abound, are more unmanageable than those in which nitrates abound: they tell me that, with flooding, irrigating, manuring, and well ploughing, they can manage to get crops from all but the soils in which this _reha_ abounds.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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"the California Youth Authority, right now known as a reha -, a reha - ... rehabilitation center, there you go"
Vimeo / Recent Public Videos laura gamse 2008
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The reha is fused into glass after the carbonic acid and moisture have been expelled by heat, and the sujjee is formed into soap, by the addition of lime, fat, and linseed oil, in the following proportions, I am told: -- 6 sujjee, 4 lime, 21/2 fat, and
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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They are then powdered to fine dust, which is placed in another crucible, and fused to liquid glass, the _reha_ containing in itself sufficient silica to form the coarse glass used in making bracelets,
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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To make soap from the reha, they must first remove the silex which it contains.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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On this bed the coarse reha earth is placed without being refined by the process described in the text above.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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The _reha_, deprived of its carbonic acid and moisture by heat, is fused into glass.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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Doctor O'Shaughnessy further states, that the _reha_ earth, which I sent to him from Oude, is identical with the _sujjee muttee_ of
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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Some coarse common salt (kharee nimuck) is mixed up with the reha.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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This superabundance of reha, or carbonate of soda, which renders so much of the surface barren, must, I conclude, arise from deposits of common salt, or chloride of sodium.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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