Inder (; ) is a

salt lake A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per liter). I ...

Inder District, Atyrau Region Inder District (, ) is a district of Atyrau Region in Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement of Inderbor. Population: Geography Inder District lies in the Caspian Depression. The Ural river and its ...

, Kazakhstan. The mineral

Inderite Inderite, also known as lesserite, is a mineral that was named after its source, the Inder lake, near the Inder Mountains in Kazakhstan. The samples were described in English by the soviet mineralogist Boldyreva in 1937. It is a rare secondary m ...

and the plant ''

Eremurus inderiensis ''Eremurus'' is a genus of deciduous perennial flowers in the family Asphodelaceae. They are also known as the foxtail lilies or desert candles. They are native to eastern Europe in (Russia and Ukraine), and temperate Asia from Turkey to China, ...

'' were named after the lake.

Geography

Inder an

endorheic lake An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet. Endorheic lakes are generally Saline water, saline as a result of being unable to get rid of solutes ...

in the northern part of the

Caspian Lowland The Caspian Depression or the Caspian Lowland is a lowland, low-lying Plain, flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Casp ...

. It is located to the east of the Ural river. The southern foothills of the Inder Mountains rise above the northern and northeastern lakeshores. The lake is very shallow. Under the water surface there is a salt crust that is on average to thick.Индер
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'' in 30 vols. — Ch. ed.

A.M. Prokhorov Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born Alexander Michael Prochoroff, ; 11 July 1916 – 8 January 2002) was an Australian-born Russian physicist and researcher on lasers and masers, in the former Soviet Union. He shared the Nobel Prize in Ph ...

. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (in Russian)

Inderbor Inderbor, also known as Inderborskiy, (, ''İnderbor'', ''يندەربور''; , ''Inderborskiy'') is a town in Atyrau Region, southwest Kazakhstan. It lies at an altitude of and has a population of 13,254. Geography Inderbor is located to the ...

town is located to the northwest of the lake.

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There is one river flowing into the lake, but none come out of it. Inder is fed mainly by

groundwater Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and Pore space in soil, soil pore spaces and in the fractures of stratum, rock formations. About 30 percent of all readily available fresh water in the world is groundwater. A unit ...

. The salt of the lake is of high quality. It contains

potassium Potassium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol K (from Neo-Latin ) and atomic number19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife. Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to ...

bromine Bromine is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol Br and atomic number 35. It is a volatile red-brown liquid at room temperature that evaporates readily to form a similarly coloured vapour. Its properties are intermediate between th ...

and

boron Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5. In its crystalline form it is a brittle, dark, lustrous metalloid; in its amorphous form it is a brown powder. As the lightest element of the boron group it has three ...

. Up to 2021 Inder lake is recognized as the Type locality for seven minerals:

Hydroboracite Hydroboracite is a hydrated borate mineral (hence the name) of calcium and magnesium, whose chemical composition is CaMgB6O8(OH)6·3H2O. It was discovered in 1834 in the Inder lake, Atyrau Province, Kazakhstan. Hydroboracite is a minor borate ...

, Inderborite,

, Kurgantaite,

Kurnakovite Kurnakovite is a hydrated borate of magnesium with the chemical composition MgB3O3(OH)5·5H2O. It is a member of the inderite group and is a triclinic dimorph of the monoclinic inderite. Discovery and occurrence Kurnakovite, was first described ...

, Preobrazhenskite and Volkovskite.

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* Lakes of Kazakhstan Endorheic lakes of Asia Atyrau Region Caspian Depression {{Atyrau-geo-stub

Geography

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