desert varnish

orange-yellow to black coating found on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments
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Summary

desert varnish ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • desert varnish's image is recorded as Desert varnish - Flickr - pellaea.jpg[2].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as manganite[3].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as hausmannite[4].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as braunite[5].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as hematite[6].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as aluminium oxide[7].
  • desert varnish's made from material is recorded as silicon dioxide[8].
  • desert varnish's location is recorded as sandstone[9].
  • desert varnish's location is recorded as desert[10].
  • desert varnish's subclass of is recorded as coating[11].
  • desert varnish's Commons category is recorded as Desert varnish[12].
  • desert varnish's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cmk3[13].
  • desert varnish's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300379831[14].
  • desert varnish's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[15].
  • desert varnish's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/desert-varnish[16].
  • desert varnish's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as desert-varnish[17].
  • desert varnish's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 008693[18].
  • desert varnish's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 184085187[19].
  • desert varnish's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as pustynnyi-zagar-f20161[20].

Why It Matters

desert varnish ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (111 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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