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Sumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (542 words) |
 | Sumi is a word for a form of activated charcoal that is used in a wide range of applications, from grand-scale river clean-up to the purification of individual glasses of drinking water using little sumi “tea-bags”. |
 | Sumi charcoal is produced by firing certain species of hardwood (including cedar, cypress, oak or bamboo) in clay kilns at temperatures of up to 1000 degrees celsius for as long as ten days. |
 | Sumi or Sumis are one of the major tribes in the north-eastern state of Nagaland in India. |
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Sumy at AllExperts (365 words) |
 | Sumy (,) is a city on the Psel River in the Ukraine, and the capital of the Sumy Oblast. |
 | Sumy was founded in 1652 at the bank of the Psel River (a left tributary of the Dnieper) as a Cossack fortress. |
 | Sumy's population: 1850 - 11,500 inhabitants, 1897 - 27,564 inhabitants, 1913 - 50,400 inhabitants, 1926 - 44,000 inhabitants, 1939 - 69,000 inhabitants, 1959 - 98,000 inhabitants, 1970 - 159,000 inhabitants, 1979 - 231,558 inhabitants, 1989 - 293,706 inhabitants, 2001 - 295,847 inhabitants |