[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

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In a message dated 01-05-10 18:27:40 EDT, cbt4489 at GlaxoWellcome.com writes:

<< 
 Soda ash is sodium carbonate (Na2CO3).  I'm not sure how it was made in
 period, perhaps by burning salt with something.  In some cases, it was mined
 from natural deposits such as those of the Wadi Natron in Egypt.   >>

Ah, so that's where the name comes, of the stuff they used to dehydrate 
corpses in the mummification process . . . .