There are many reasons why households might extract equity from their homes: to finance household expenditures, to make major home repairs or improvements (so-called residential investment), to consolidate more costly debt, such as credit card debt, to invest in personal businesses or other forms of entrepreneurship, to help finance the purchase of other real estate, or to engage in a form of investment arbitrage, or a mixture of the above.

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The machine blends iron, bleach and sodium hydroxide to form a dark purple liquid mixture of ferrate, salt and water that gets metered into the water supply. (The color disappears instantly as it reacts with the water.) Common disinfectants ozone and chlorine can turn the water cloudy or, worse, leave behind harmful chemical by-products.

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Lee endured a mixture of bad luck and bad form, at one point jokingly offering his cue to a member of the crowd to see if he could do any better.

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It was a vivid mixture of fact and folklore, from which the idea for a short story took form.

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Finally, stocks can be in the form of crude oil of various grades, products or a mixture of the two.

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Spread the rice mixture into the dish, gather the overhanging phyllo and fold it over the filling to form a boureki, or large pie.

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