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- Dictionarybarren/ˈbarən/
adjective
- 1. (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation: "the plains of Kyrenia were barren" Similar Opposite
- 2. (of a place or building) bleak and lifeless: "the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building"
noun
- 1. a barren tract or tracts of land: North American "the Newfoundland barrens"
- 2. a group or drove of mules: rare "the Greeks were seen to drive a barren of mules"
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2 days ago · Brine solution mining. Natural brine wells are the source of a large percentage of the world’s bromine, lithium, and boron and lesser amounts of potash, trona (sodium carbonate), Glauber’s salt (sodium sulfate), and magnesium.
3 days ago · drought, lack or insufficiency of rain for an extended period that causes a considerable hydrologic (water) imbalance and, consequently, water shortages, crop damage, streamflow reduction, and depletion of groundwater and soil moisture.
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1 day ago · When deforestation occurred, most of the springs began to dry up and die. The barren catchment could not catch the water. Now look at Chir pines, which are a major source of fire.
2 days ago · For example, Zou et al. (2022) compiled a dataset of global geochemical data of magmatic zircon and analyzed it using machine learning approaches to reveal hidden geochemical indicators discriminating between fertile and barren zircons linked to porphyry copper deposits.
2 days ago · A registered member of the Barren Lands First Nation, Tomson hails from Brochet, a village located in northern Manitoba near the convergence of Saskatchewan and what is now Nunavut.
4 days ago · Blackie views archetypes as either characters—like the wise woman—or ideas, such as truth or beauty. However, they can also be patterns, like the Hero’s or Heroine’s Journey, or themes, such as using a barren desert as a metaphor in a film.
2 days ago · They were alone in a postdiluvian barren landscape with no other signs of life, not even plants or animals. All they had for company were the sun, wind, and rocks haphazardly scattered around them. These rocks formed and laid the foundation of the earth beneath their feet.
