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Encyclopedia > Buna

Buna refers to:

  • A subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp where the German firm IG Farben had a chemical plant, the Buna-Werke
  • A kind of synthetic rubber, first synthesized by German chemists in 1935. "Buna Rubbers" were "copolymers", meaning that their polymers were made up from not one but two monomers, in alternating sequence. One such Buna rubber, known as "GR-S" ("Government Rubber Styrene), a copolymer of butadiene and styrene, became the basis for US synthetic rubber production during World War II.
  • Also known as Mbum, Mboum, Mboumtiba, and Wuna, an official language of Cameroon, Africa, together with French, English and other, tribal, languages.
  • The Romanian word for "good" in the feminineBuna Dimineaţa! = "Good Morning"
  • A word for "rebellion" in Serbo-Croat (also, pobuna).
  • A Turkish preposition used in phrases like buna kars¸ı ("on the other hand"), buna göre ("given that"), buna kars¸ılık ("in counterpart")

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Buna (2020 words)
Buna became part of a concentrated 20km of defensive positions at Buna, Sanananda and Gona defended by 9,000 Japanese.
After the battle at Buna, the area around the old strip was used for housing by Allied forces in the area.
The old village of Buna is located a mile to the west of the Buna government station, along a cove.
Papuan Campaign: Part I- Buna (4516 words)
Buna Village, a half mile to the northwest, was merely a cluster of huts.
It is 40 to 60 feet wide until it disappears in the swamps southeast of Buna Village, and it eventually reaches the ocean through several mouths between Buna and Sanananda.
The principal swamp in the Buna area lies between Entrance Creek and Simemi Creek and reaches inland to the vicinity of Simemi and Ango.
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