The Dead Sea Works (Hebrew: מפעלי ים המלח) is a major industry on the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel. Evaporation ponds are artificial Ponds with very large surface areas that are designed to efficiently evaporate water by Sunlight and exposure to the ambient The Dead Sea (יָם הַמֶּלַח, "Sea of Salt"البَحْر المَيّت, "Dead Sea" is a salt lake between For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The company operates in the southern basin of the Sea, where it has a series of large evaporation ponds. Evaporation ponds are artificial Ponds with very large surface areas that are designed to efficiently evaporate water by Sunlight and exposure to the ambient These produce potash, which is exported around the world for various uses. Potash (or carbonate of potash) is an impure form of Potassium carbonate ( K 2 CO3) [1]
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Following the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, Moshe Novomeysky's Palestine Potash Company Ltd. Moshe Novomeysky (משה נובומייסקי Моисей Абрамович Новомейский November 25, 1873 – March 27, 1961) was nationalised by the Israeli government under the Ministry of Development, and renamed the Dead Sea Works in 1952. The Development Minister of Israel was a portfolio in the Israeli cabinet between 1953 and 1974
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- ^ John Ward Anderson. Arab Potash is a company that is primarily involved in harvesting Minerals from the Dead Sea. "For Dead Sea, a Slow and Seemingly Inexorable Death", The Washington Post, 2005-05-19. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1535 - French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships 110 men and Retrieved on 2007-11-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat
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