Emet is a town and a district of Kütahya Province

Kütahya Province

Kütahya Province is a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is 11,889 km² in size, and the population is 590,496 . In 1990, Kütahya had a population of 578,020.-Districts:...

 in the Aegean region of Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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It is also a Hebrew word meaning "truth", often used in the legend of the Golem

Golem

In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing....

. This word was written across the forehead of the mythical beast by the operator. To deactivate the Golem, the magician would rub out the first letter of "emet", "met" meaning "dead".

Emet boron mine

A large boron

Boron

Boron is the chemical element with atomic number 5 and the chemical symbol B. Boron is a metalloid. Because boron is not produced by stellar nucleosynthesis, it is a low-abundance element in both the solar system and the Earth's crust. However, boron is concentrated on Earth by the...

mine is located a few miles north of the city. The mine is owned by Eti Boron Inc. (a.ş)