Fri 10 Jan, 2020 12:31 am - Hello ppl :) amateur chemist here
Before I begin, I wanna ask if anyone here knows and is willing to teach me of a cheap, workable process to create sodium carbonate?
With that out of the... (view)
Sat 15 Jun, 2019 05:58 pm - Thanks for the link. So this texture I've seen so far in all sedimentary rocks is just basically "sintering"? Heat simply helps in the development of a "matrix of intersecting,... (view)
Fri 14 Jun, 2019 01:11 pm - Ok, I'm starting to get a clearer picture of things. Let's talk a bit about clay, if you will. The way I know, clay is basically alumina and silica sand that has become grounded to nano... (view)
Thu 13 Jun, 2019 10:17 pm - Any idea on what exactly causes this porosity in dolomite? I got this neat book called "Dana's textbook on mineralogy" and I'm having a headache by just realizing how complex... (view)
Wed 12 Jun, 2019 05:32 pm - Thanks for the warnings, I know chroline is very dangerous (just recently and accidentally opened a container and got blasted lol).
I work outside with mud kilns and my own charcoal, so I guess... (view)
Mon 10 Jun, 2019 10:25 am - For the creation of glass, the industrial process makes use of sodium carbonate with silica crystals (sand/quartz) to lower SiO2 melting point from about 2000 °C down to 1000 °C. Since the... (view)
Mon 10 Jun, 2019 10:13 am - Sorry for the delayed response. To be frank, I have barely started understanding crystals and minerals (I'm a mechanical engineer), my only tool is a lab optical microscope and what I do, is... (view)
Sat 8 Jun, 2019 09:29 pm - Im already aware about much of the process involved in the creation of Portland cement (and that Roman cement contains aluminum tobermorite, which makes it very resistant to salt water), I'm... (view)
Sat 8 Jun, 2019 11:50 am - That's exactly the kind of understanding I was looking for, thanks a lot for sharing it.
So let me see if I get it, cement is all about crystal formation, a certain kind of crystal that is... (view)
