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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI |
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GUANO (a Spanish word from the Peruvian huanu, dung) , the excrement of birds, found as large deposits on certain islands off the coast of Peru, and on others situated in the Southern ocean and off the west coast of Africa. The large proportions of phosphorus in the form of phosphates
nitrogen as ammonium oxalate and urate renders it a valuable fertilizer. Bat's guano , composed of the excrement of bats, is found in certain caves in New Zealand and elsewhere; it is similar in composition to Peruvian guano . (See MANURES
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