Thursday, January 1, 2015

Rock Paper

I once bought (actually, got it for free) a piece of drywall at Home Depot. I wanted to make an experiment, and that was to see how fast the water was going through it. I put it horizontally and poured water and after an hour i saw it didn't even penetrated the outer paper.  And with this occasion i looked closer to it.

Drywall, that is the material for the panels they build houses with is a sandwich made of two sheets of cardboard with calcium sulfate, aka gypsum in between. Building houses in this style is called building with light building materials. It's an architectural vision meant to build fast and cheap.

Calcium sulfate contains about 19% sulfur and 23% calcium.

Measure
Units
Museum specimen2
Synthetic gypsum
Natural gypsum
Cast gypsum
Drywall gypsum
Ideal analysis3
Calcium
%
22.6
23.0 (0.0)4
19.1 (2.2)
22.4 (0.0)
21.9 (0.2)
23.3
Magnesium
%
0.01
0.03 (0.01)
1.35 (0.30)
0.05 (0.00)
0.22 (0.01)
Sulfur
%
18.6
18.7 (0.1)
15.1 (1.2)
19.3 (0.2)
18.1 (0.3)
18.6
Boron
ppm
< 13.1
26.7 (8.7)
9.4 (0.9)
0.4 (0.4)
7.3 (4.5)
Iron
ppm
< 1
264 (129)
1045 (148)
44 (7)
547 (92)
Manganese
ppm
0.1
5.5 (2.3)
14.6 (2.9)
9.1 (0.0)
9.4 (1.6)
Phosphorus
ppm
3.8
16.7 (9.4)
30.6 (7.6)
7.5 (0.3)
51.6 (3.5)
http://www.spectrumanalytic.com/support/library/rf/Gypsum.htm

But when i looked at it closer i saw they pushed the "light building material" concept even further. It's not all gypsum, it's porous. Somehow, they created tiny bubbles inside the gypsum. Pretty much like for its cousin, the cellular concrete. Differences are concrete is made of silica and much stronger mechanically, less chemically reactive and water sensitive. (Normal concrete if not disturbed or cut is very stable). One way of creating the bubles is with a foaming agent that probably must be evaporated in the end (proof that the material is porous, with some open cells, is that the foaming agent has been removed).

I once picked from one of the walls in the bathroom a  broken piece that had turned brown. I smelled it and it smelled heavily like smoke. It was penetrated in all its volume by smoke. Now i saw why. Because it's porous. Gasses can pass through, especially when vibrated. (Don't ask me how smoke got in there. Probably, a broken chimney at the next entrance. Actually right now i was awakened by the smell of smoke and sulfur. Yesterday at a certain time there where two big (tall) vehicles with building materials and names on them at both entrances seen from the window. In the distance near another building there was a van with, among other, the word move on it).

"Later air entrainment technology made boards lighter and less brittle, then joint treatment materials and systems also evolved". Don't know why in this Wikipedia page right now the word entrainment is used instead of entrapment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drywall#History

But the trick is those bubbles can be filled in time with sulfur dioxide which can turn into sulfuric acid through combining with water in our lungs. Sulfuric acid is one of the ingredients of vitriol, the material that can dissolve gold (the other name for sulfuric acid is Oil of vitriol).

The proof sulfur dioxide is in there:

http://www.google.com/patents/US3808321

(There are also rumors that aluminum from backing powder under the form of the the residual aluminum hydrate, aluminum being the same material the top of the obelisk in Washington DC, "they put it there because at the time of the erection of that obelisk it was very rare and the most expensive material on Earth", is the main cause of Alzheimer).

I once read on a site about the masonic initiation ritual for the first degree. At a certain moment, the apprentice sits alone, enclosed in a room where among others things there is a glass recipient with pieces of sulfur in it. On one the walls is written the word V.I.T.R.I.O.L..

Years ago they were rumors about a secret society probably associated with masonry (they all are) called Skull and Bones. I read the name comes from the contemplation of those, that reminds them constantly how perishable we all are in this world. The main constituent of bones is calcium. (The guy downstairs just made a noise).

On another occasion i read about a masonic ritual called "burning between columns" and it was described like writing on a piece of paper the name of the undesirable person and burning that piece of paper between the columns, that is probably the brethren of the lodge present at that moment.

So what do we got here? Sulfuric acid - Oil of vitriol, calcium, aluminum, paper with the name Sheetrock written on with huge letters. A fan inside the floor vibrating everything that probably symbolizes the eternal flame (of you know who). And a guy downstairs that moves and makes noises when i get mad and curse in my mind.

(Add to all this the flying at any vibration mineral insulation in the walls and attic known as rock-wool. May come from basaltic lava. May contain silica. And tar, the ingredient the roof shingles are made off, together with sand (mainly silica). Tar is the same ingredient they say it's boiling in the tar bowls in Hell, according to some cultures. According to others, a lake of fiery sulfur. When turned to dust, due to, you guessed, vibration, it also flies around and into your lungs and digestive system.)

Any of the toxins enumerated above in limited amounts, like any toxins, in the beginning, may give you a high and/or addiction.

Why anybody so far didn't think of it this way? Because it's too insane.

And all these things remind me of a song that is on the tops right now.



"Boys only want love if it's torture
Don't say I didn't say I didn't warn you"

"Cause we're young and we're reckless
We'll take this way too far and leave you breathless
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I got a blank space baby
And I'll write your name"

1 comment:

George Ion said...

Pentru românii care n-au timp să se uite în dicționar

https://translate.google.com/#it/ro/reckless

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