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post #571 of 770
8/9/04 at 4:23pm
Well my wife got a tooth drilled out the other day because of an infection. The dentist said he needed to pack the whole with an obsorbant material. She asked what it was, he said you know it's that stuff in the little packets put in with electronics in the box that they say not to eat, silica....
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post #572 of 770
8/10/04 at 4:33am
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"What is mesquite?"


haha, i wonder if it is made from mosquitos?

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Can't wait until November


you got that right
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post #573 of 770
8/10/04 at 6:06am
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you got that right


WOrd up
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post #574 of 770
8/29/04 at 2:13pm
I found another interesting reference to silica.

I was doing some incidental reading about ball lightning. Bored at work. Ball lightning is a mysterious kind of lightning that hasn't quite been explained by science yet.

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A leading theory suggests that ball lightning forms when a lightning strike vaporises silica in soil. The silicon vapour condenses into a fine dust that is bound together by electrical charges into a floating ball, which would oxidise and glow (New Scientist magazine, 8 April 2000).

!!!

I've also read you can create a kind of ball lightning in your microwave (but it might kill you - the old "do not try this at home). So silica + electricity = ball lightning (possibly).
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post #575 of 770
8/29/04 at 4:01pm
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Mr Jinks (the cat): I hate mizes to pieces!

Har Har!

On ball lightening, I just read something about that the other day, and now its even better because of the possible connection to silica.
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post #576 of 770
8/30/04 at 8:39am
Hmmm... I think I have a problem here.

I work for a medical-supply company.

The other day, I opened up a test kit, and lo-and-behold, what do I find?

A 2-inch-by-3-inch silica pack! BUT, there were also three tiny little packs in there as well.

Dear god, I think they are breeding!!!

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post #577 of 770
9/13/04 at 1:34pm
I just found another reference to silica - it's in fiber-cement siding.
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Any product containing silica should be treated with respect. Always use a dust mask and safety glasses when sawing, and either cut outside or in a very ventilated area. And don't try to lift too many pieces at once - this stuff weighs 2.3 pounds per square foot.


http://www.housingzone.com/topics/pr.../pr03ha004.asp

Does it weigh so much because it's absorbed too much salsa? Because it is a black hole like many have speculated?

TREAT IT WITH RESPECT. YOU HEARD THE MAN.
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post #578 of 770
9/13/04 at 2:10pm
Any product containing silica should be treated with respect.

I love it!
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post #579 of 770
9/13/04 at 2:26pm
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Any product containing silica should be treated with respect.

The streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelievers...or something.

Didn't your parents teach you to respect your silica?
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post #580 of 770
9/13/04 at 2:28pm
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Dear god, I think they are breeding!!!

A good solid crotch kick should solve that problem...although good luck finding it on a silica packet.
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post #581 of 770
9/13/04 at 2:57pm
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Ball lightning is a mysterious kind of lightning that hasn't quite been explained by science yet.

Few squirts of baby powder tend to help. Especially, in these muggy months. Keeping the area dry is important. A light cotton boxer is best.

Keep your Mizes intake to a minimum.

Shatterproof to the young youth...shoot.
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post #582 of 770
9/13/04 at 3:07pm
Does anyone know what those little silica packets are for?
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post #583 of 770
9/14/04 at 9:10am
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They absorb moisture from the air

From Mark Barnhill (Post #2 of this thread)

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post #584 of 770
9/14/04 at 9:29am
They absorb moisture from the air

No, that's not it...(scratches head)...
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post #585 of 770
10/11/04 at 2:15pm
My son (9) came home from school today with his list of spelling words. You guessed it, Silica was on the list. He asks, 'Dad, what's Silica?'

You can imagine the rest.
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post #586 of 770
10/12/04 at 11:16am
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Does anyone know what those little silica packets are for?


I just had the weirdest sense of deja vu. Did someone reset the Matrix?

(keanu)Whoa.(/keanu)

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post #587 of 770
10/12/04 at 1:16pm
I recently got a new hard drive but it had no silca in it...Should I be concerned about Salsa damage?
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post #588 of 770
10/13/04 at 10:26am
Silica can be dangerous when mixed (in high enough concentrations) with magma:

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/...ovd/ovdal.html

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The type of lava is determined by the percentage of silica in the lava. Rhyolite contains the most silica, Basalt, the least. The higher the silica content, the stiffer the lava. The lower the silica content, the more fluid the lava.

Basalt lava, which contains less than 58% silica, is very fluid. It moves along the ground in long streams, such as this [pictured] Hawaiian flow. Mount St. Helens has had eruptions in the past like this, such as the one that formed Ape Cave.

In contrast, Mount St. Helens can also erupt dacite lava that contains about 64% silica. Instead of flowing across the ground like basalt lava, dacite lava can pile up right above the vent, or be erupted explosively, like during the May 18, 1980 eruption.

-Mike
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post #589 of 770
10/13/04 at 11:03am
So how are they going to keep my magma deliveries fresh when they are mailed to me?????????
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post #590 of 770
10/13/04 at 11:59am
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So how are they going to keep my magma deliveries fresh when they are mailed to me?????????

Pack it with a hard drive?

You know, I'm always glad to see this thread pop up again...good stuff.
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post #591 of 770
10/13/04 at 12:11pm
So how are they going to keep my magma deliveries fresh when they are mailed to me?????????

Ziploc bags?
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post #592 of 770
10/13/04 at 2:09pm
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Basalt lava, which contains less than 58% silica, is very fluid


Just to clarify, this is because more silica = less water. Thus, when the lava doesn't have much silica, it becomes very fluid.

The conclusion I reach, then, is that you could stop the flow of lava with enough silica!!
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post #593 of 770
10/13/04 at 2:39pm
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The conclusion I reach, then, is that you could stop the flow of lava with enough silica!!
Maybe Gandolf would have faired better with a big bag of Silica rather than his staff??

"You shall NOT pass! - - - Because I have SILICA!!!"
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post #594 of 770
10/13/04 at 2:53pm
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post #595 of 770
10/13/04 at 3:00pm
Okay, I found a new form of silica! I just opened a bottle of back-pain-pills, and when I shook a few of 'em out, I came up with a little silica container! It looked like a tiny little can with perforations on top.

Canned silica! I'll be damned!


As for Gandalf, I'll have to make a mental note that Balrogs can be stopped by hucking a couple of silica packets at 'em. You know, just in case I should encounter a Balrog in the near future. Always pays to be prepared.
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post #596 of 770
10/13/04 at 3:18pm
Slow Lava
(Invocation/Evocation)
Level: 4
Range: 10 yards/level
Durations: 1 turn/silica packet
Area of Effect: 30' Radius
Components: V,S,M
Saving Throw: special

This spell slows lava and all creatures composed of lava for 1 turn per spell component used. This affects all lava in the area of effect, to a maximum of 10d20 lbs of lava. In addition, creatures or lava failing a save vs spells are permanently slowed, reversible only via a dispel magic or haste lava spell.

The material component is a small packet of silica.
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post #597 of 770
10/14/04 at 10:42am
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"You shall NOT pass! - - - Because I have SILICA!!!"

This same idea might have worked in Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well.
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post #598 of 770
10/25/04 at 12:43am
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A good solid crotch kick should solve that problem...although good luck finding it on a silica packet.

Aren't silica packets filled with (ahem) balls of silica? Consider the pouch one bonafide crotch...
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post #599 of 770
10/25/04 at 7:13pm
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Canned silica! I'll be damned!

Well, we know that it probably isn't dehydrated silica...I think that would be some bizzar form of torture...giving someone instructions to "just ad water" to dehydrated silica...which so I hear absorbs stuff like water...salsa...hard drives...can stop a valcano...relieves back pain...its the new wonder drug.
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post #600 of 770
10/26/04 at 2:07pm
Hey, I found a site devoted to silica (came up when someone mentioned the secret silica HTF handshake in the other thread). I googled silica handshake (which got me the silica wikipedia entry) and happened across it.

http://users.adelphia.net/~jthm/

not sure if anyone has posted it before. He's got a silica packet collection, too! I emailed him this thread.

From the site:





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