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Hello and welcome from the Geospace courtesy of GEOLAURASIA, where ground up ...PUN...crystals and Clays present multiplied anion contacts. In other words, they work better on your problem areas and energy centers. One ice cube size chunk of a HEALING CRYSTAL has just so much SURFACE AREA! Tens of thousands of 'chunks', powder size, have thousands more times of surface. It is CONTACT THAT DOES THE JOB.
CONTENTS...
PUZZLE
CHAKRAS?
CLAY OF THE DAY-Montmotillonite
MOUNTAIN OF CLAYSTONE..the mud layers from the floodplain of an ancient river, the clay solidified into stone, the area uplifted recently, eroded.
Recently? Yes! About 15 million years ago. To us that is like yesterday.
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PUZZLE
Taking the surface area discussion one step further, here is a fun problem that was presented to us grad students by our prof in sedimentary rocks, Dr.Harvey Blatt. Look up his books on Amazon. Dear departed genius went to join a Christian kibbutz in Israel where he passed away, still the world's foremost authority on little rock chunks, sand and clay. etc etc etc
HATE MATH? Mind benders??? SKIP IT… just read the results below!
THE PROBLEM HE GAVE US WAS THIS.
A CUBE! SIX SIDES. SURFACE AREA, add up the areas of the six sides.
Then cut it into Eight equal smaller cubes with three cuts...
One vertical made back to front. One horizontal and one vertical from left to right. EASY.
NOW… add up the surface areas of the eight small cubes.
How much larger is the new surface area than the original?
The total surface area of the eight little guys is larger than the original. By how many times??? Twice as large? Four times? 8 times? 12, 32, 64 times??
Answer way below…
I made all sorts of guesses in front of my thesis supervisor, THE most important man in my life for almost four years…. Finally I got it by thinking about it but I didn’t believe it my answer, so… paper and pencil time.
READ...THE POINT IS THAT YOU INCREASE THE SURFACE AREA IMMEASURABLY BY POWDERING YOUR SAMPLES . Obviously… … and we think that makes the microcrystals more “powerful” than large pieces typically used for crystal healing, Reiki etc. . AND, broken minerals and clays are irregular even with cleavage planes, so the effect is multiplied still further. AND your skin is not smooth like a pool table. A large sample does not follow the skin. It lays across the structure of the skin leaving much uncontacted.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN THE REALM OF CHAKRAS!
HOW MANY ARE THERE? SEVEN? Yes seven main ones, but Hindu philosophy says there are 888! All over the body. Think about Acupuncture Meridians. So applying a chunk mineral to seven spots… can that be as effective as spreading powders over your body, covering more of the 888. Maybe ONE big one is more intense than 100,000 little ones? What do you think? Willing to give powders and clays a chance? Just a thought !
PUZZLE ANSWER! THE answer is … with one cut in each direction you have doubled the surface area! SURPRISED? Only Doubled? YUP! Can you figure out what’s the increase with 64 little cubes?… three cuts in each direction gives 64 cubes. Answer to 64 next time.
CLAY OF THE DAY//// MONTMORILLONITE
A sandwich clay made of two sheets of Silicon tetrahedrons… little four sided pyramids touching at points... and an aluminum layer between them, Add water and the H2O gets into the Al filling… then the clay can expand to up to six times its volume.
Highway engineers have to build bridges across or avoid montmorillonite deposits or… the road will rise in the rain. Sink when it’s dry. Not good.
Here’s the wiki article... made readable by me…
Montmorillonite
A sample of montmorillonite
General
Category
(repeating unit)
(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10) THIS WILL BE ON THE TEST!
(OH)2·nH2O
Monoclinic… iT LEANS
Prismatic monoclinic
Identification
Color
White, pale pink, blue, yellow, red, green
compact masses of layers or globular microcrystalline aggregates
{001} perfect.. Breaks along the sheets like Mica, or Graphite… slides when wet.
Uneven… perpendicular to the slide planes it tears.
Mohs scale hardness
1–2 VERY SOFT, like talc.
Dull, earthy
Translucent
1.7-2… up to twice the density of water.
Montmorillonite is a very soft Layered silicate group of minerals that form when they precipitate from water solution as microscopic crystals, known as clay. It is named after Montmorillon in France. Montmorillonite, is a 2:1 clay, meaning that it has two tetrahedral sheets of silica sandwiching a central octahedral sheet of alumina. The particles are plate-shaped with an average diameter around 1 μm and a thickness of 0.96 nm; magnification of about 25,000 times, using an electron microscope, is required to "see" individual clay particles.
The individual crystals of montmorillonite clay are not tightly bound hence water can intervene, causing the clay to swell.
SEE THE ATOMIC SANDWICH!Structure of montmorillonite
USES… Montmorillonite is used in the oil drilling industry.
Similar to many other clays, montmorillonite swells with the addition of water. Montmorillonites expand considerably more than other clays due to water penetrating the interlayer molecular spaces and concomitant adsorption. This swelling property makes montmorillonite-containing bentonite useful also as an annular seal or plug for water wells and as a protective liner for landfills. Other uses include as an anticaking agent in animal feed, in paper making to minimize deposit formation, and as a retention and drainage aid component.
Montmorillonite has also been used in cosmetics.[citation needed]
In a fine powder form, it can also be used as a flocculant in ponds. Tossed on the surface as it drops into the water, making the water "clouded", it attracts minute particles in the water and then settles to the bottom, cleaning the water. Koi and goldfish (carp) then actually feed on the "clump" which can aid in the digestion of the fish. It is sold in pond supply shops.
Sodium montmorillonite is also used as the base of some cat litter products, due to its adsorbent and clumping properties.[citation needed]
Montmorillonite is effective as an adsorptive of heavy metals.[7]
For external use, montmorillonite has been used to treat contact dermatitis.[8]
USED IN Pet food… NON TOXIC...Montmorillonite clay is added to some dog and cat foods as an anti-caking agent and because it may provide some resistance to environmental toxins, though research on the subject is not yet conclusive.[9]
Discovery[edit]Montmorillonite was first described in 1847 for an occurrence in Montmorillon in the department of Vienne, France,[3] more than 50 years before the discovery of bentonite in the US. It is found in many locations worldwide and known by other names.
Lipid organization[edit] ORIGIN OF LIFE????Montmorillonite is also known to cause micelles (lipid spheres) to assemble together into vesicles. These structures resemble cell membranes on many cells. It can also help nucleotides to assemble into RNA which will end up inside the vesicles. This could have generated highly complex RNA polymers that could reproduce the RNA trapped within the vesicles.[10][11] This process may have played a part in abiogenesis which led to life on Earth.[12] Minerals similar to montmorillonites have also been found on Mars.[13]
Stupid geology joke…
Watson: He was hit on the head with a piece of sandstone? Holmes, how did you know?
Holmes: Sedimentary, my dear Watson.
Aren’t you glad I didn’t say, “He took it for granite!” ?
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