Perhaps it was something like natron, only stronger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joust]

They left the wadi and raced on towards the dunes and the natron lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

The natron will dehydrate the body and allow the blood to drain from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrapping Kevin] Reference

Those solidified by heat are of earth, e.g. pottery, cheese, natron, salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

The oil is brought from the Archipelago, and the natron lakes furnish the alkali.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

This is a serious attempt at mummification without the natron Herodotus describes.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOO MANY MURDERS] Reference

To make a frit, an alkali source (natron, plant ash, or borax) was heated with silica.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

    When the body is fully dehydrated, wrap natron-soaked gauze or bandages around it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrapping Kevin] Reference

The incision is sewn up and then the body is placed in natron, covered for 70 days, never longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thoroughly Modern Mummy] Reference

Chad: petroleum (unexploited but exploration under way), uranium, natron, kaolin, fish (Lake Chad).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

All those bodies in which this is not the case are dissolved by water, e.g. natron, salt, dry mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

Brock shows Nystrom what was found in one coffin: bundles of natron, the natural salt used in embalming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Kings Cliffhanger] Reference

Much of this is converted into natron by the organic matter in the soil, and forms a white crust on the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

So again in natron, salt, and those kinds of stones that are not formed by refrigeration and cannot be melted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

Natural resources: petroleum (unexploited but exploration under way), uranium, natron, kaolin, fish (Lake Chad).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Salt, too, is more odorous than natron, as the oil which exudes from the former proves, for natron is allied to.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference

The king's body cavity was packed with natron salts, then wrapped in linen bindings soaked with the harsh salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Another: - The juice of the grape, the strongest vinegar, the flower of copper, natron, the juice of the wild fig-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Ulcers] Reference

The remaining parts were dehydrated by heaping solid natron, a naturally occurring salt, over the body for a 35-day period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multimedia: Tut to Lenin; Drama of Evolution] Reference

So, too, are the liquids out of which natron and salt are formed; and stones are also formed from some mixtures of this kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

Then all the organs were packed with the white crystals of evaporated natron from the lake edge and stored in pottery wine jars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warlock]

Pereira, in "Materia Medica," though intimating that natron is not to be confounded with nitre, says, in speaking of carbonate of soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Then, still in the foetal position, the king was placed in the bath of natron salt with only his head left uncovered by the harsh fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

This fellow has been pickled in natron, and looked after in the most approved style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Red Lamp] Reference

Camels and men drank it greedily, though it was tainted by the all-pervading natron.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"] Reference

Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Magic Door] Reference

The natron or soda, which is procured in the neighbourhood, is found alone in the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

Today they are as much mysteries as they were when the embalmers put the body in the bath of natron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Behold now he went with rushes, natron, and salt, with wood and pods, with stones and seeds, and all good products of the Sekhet Hemat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty] Reference