guano
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They were also located in a layer that lacked guano deposits, ruling out spontaneous combustion as an explanation.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Their collective body heat raises the cave’s temperature to a sweltering 106°F, and the piles of guano beneath them are deep enough to bury the Statue of Liberty to her waist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The latter elements suggest the hearth was intentionally sealed with a mixture of guano and sand, which can protect plant materials within the hearth from catching fire—conditions needed to create tar.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2024
Their guano, or dung, can also be used as fertilizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
The rocks below the bats were slubbered with wet, greasy guano, a spinach- green paste speckled with gray blobs, which reminded me of oysters Rockefeller.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the manufacture of high-class superphosphate only a certain number of raw phosphates are available, such as Curaçao and Somme phosphates, phosphatic guanos, bone-char, &c.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
Where the difference in value between different samples is required, a complete analysis is necessary, and this is indispensable in the case of the inferior guanos.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
Some meat-meal guanos contain as much nitrogen as 11 per cent.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
Such guanos form a soft phosphatic rock, and are extremely rich in phosphates.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
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