Then prepare a powdery silicate mix of sand and potassium carbonate.
Centuries ago, the Indians of the Southwest used a mix of sand, clay, straw and water to make adobe homes.
In the process, a mix of sand, water and chemicals is pumped deep underground at ferocious pressure.
The first involves injecting a mix of sand, water and chemicals into oil- and gas-bearing rocks to allow the hydrocarbons to escape.
He filled 20 bottles with a mix of sand and seeds - each bottle containing 50 seeds from each of 21 species of plant.
Over the last six years, Mr. Colón has tried to recreate the stucco formula that the Spaniards used, a mix of sand, water and limestone.
The company has replanted tidal wetland vegetation, like marsh grasses, throughout the project, and it has directed drainage to swales that contain a mix of sand and topsoil.
"I didn't even know what a sand boil was," Mayor Frank Bergman said as he surveyed the waterlogged levee, referring to the mix of sand and water that bubbles up from the ground.
Mr. Obama, in chocolate brown khakis, rolled sleeves and work boots, squatted to the beach, as the gentle surf lapped nearly to his hands, and picked up a mix of sand and small tar balls.
Since the early 1980s, the atoll's vast interior lagoon, a mix of sand and coral flats interspersed with deep cuts that usher tidal water to and fro, has been renowned as one of the world's most prolific and reliable sites for the sleek, finicky sport fish.
