Post by 1dave on Sept 7, 2020 6:05:10 GMT -7
PHD's are mostly smoke and mirrors.
Clay studies are for specific subjects - farming, construction, pottery -
HERE James has initiated a NEW IDEA, How to speed up tumbling.
What happens in a steep river? Rocks roll and bang into each other, shattering, bruising, pitting.
As the river enters the lowland those fractured rocks are rounded and smoothed by the particles around them.
Rock lovers have been trying to improve on Ma Nature.
Build a tumbler - add rocks and water - No good.
Add rocks and grit - no good.
Add rocks, grit and water - better.
Add rocks, grit, water, AND slurry - Voila! (“ see!, look! ”) a huge savings in time.
Now, how to simplify all the clay studies to help with improving the process even more?
@jamesp is having success using red clay as a slurry. It got me wondering so I posted:
our normally visible planet Earth surface domain consists predominately of only eight elements:
1 - oxygen, 2 - silicon, 3 - aluminum,4 - iron;
O, s, a, i. That is easy to remember.
Then 5 - calcium, 6 - sodium, 7 - potassium, 8 - magnesium;
C, s, p, m.
Those are the eight major rock forming elements.
That is what most rocks we see are made of.
Remember Sail Boat. ‘Oh! Suddenly An Idea Came Sailing Past Me!’
O s a i; c s p m. That is what makes up ninety nine percent of mud.”
That last one percent consists mostly of just eight more elements. In decreasing order, they are titanium, hydrogen, phosphorus, manganese, fluorine, barium, carbon, and strontium; T, h, p, m, f, b, c, s. The eight minor rock forming elements.
‘The Heavier Parts Made From Bigger Constructed Stars.’
That gets you to 99.9 percent of all mud.
All we have to do is toss out all that is not in your RED CLAY. Clay comes from the breakdown of feldspar so we can toss out a lot of quartz - SiO2, what more?
We have to keep the iron for the red, most likely aluminum because it is everywhere. Calcium,sodium, potassium, magnesium. Some of them have to be there. What do those electron shells do?
So the kaolin ( Al2Si2O5(OH)4. ) lacks the iron and magnesium. is the iron necessary?
The black gumbo from Kansas sticks to your shoes - up to SIX INCHES!
I will guarantee that electrical conductivity and ion type attraction forces have all-to-do with clay slurries.
I have no knowledge on the subject of conductivity.
But suspensions in ALL types of slurries be it for drilling or carrying ore particles or whatever have performance related to high conductivities.(reading articles)
Perhaps iron is the reason for a high conductivity ? Reduced silica and high clay content raises conductivity, that's a fact.
Kaolin has another benefit when tumbling. It is like 30% aluminum oxide.
And after the coarse SiC breaks down I believe the AO in the kaolin slurry is laying down a fine pre-pre-polish finish.
Take the rocks out of some well broken down SiC 30 running in the rotary and put them in the vibe with AO 500 and they have a darn nice polish the next day.
Just a by product.
Main goal is to have a slurry that carries bigger SiC particles with high attraction(suction) forces to grind rocks faster.
Coarse grind sloooow
Clay studies are for specific subjects - farming, construction, pottery -
HERE James has initiated a NEW IDEA, How to speed up tumbling.
What happens in a steep river? Rocks roll and bang into each other, shattering, bruising, pitting.
As the river enters the lowland those fractured rocks are rounded and smoothed by the particles around them.
Rock lovers have been trying to improve on Ma Nature.
Build a tumbler - add rocks and water - No good.
Add rocks and grit - no good.
Add rocks, grit and water - better.
Add rocks, grit, water, AND slurry - Voila! (“ see!, look! ”) a huge savings in time.
Now, how to simplify all the clay studies to help with improving the process even more?
@jamesp is having success using red clay as a slurry. It got me wondering so I posted:
A quick dive in mud over my head.
our normally visible planet Earth surface domain consists predominately of only eight elements:
1 - oxygen, 2 - silicon, 3 - aluminum,4 - iron;
O, s, a, i. That is easy to remember.
Then 5 - calcium, 6 - sodium, 7 - potassium, 8 - magnesium;
C, s, p, m.
Those are the eight major rock forming elements.
That is what most rocks we see are made of.
Remember Sail Boat. ‘Oh! Suddenly An Idea Came Sailing Past Me!’
O s a i; c s p m. That is what makes up ninety nine percent of mud.”
That last one percent consists mostly of just eight more elements. In decreasing order, they are titanium, hydrogen, phosphorus, manganese, fluorine, barium, carbon, and strontium; T, h, p, m, f, b, c, s. The eight minor rock forming elements.
‘The Heavier Parts Made From Bigger Constructed Stars.’
That gets you to 99.9 percent of all mud.
All we have to do is toss out all that is not in your RED CLAY. Clay comes from the breakdown of feldspar so we can toss out a lot of quartz - SiO2, what more?
We have to keep the iron for the red, most likely aluminum because it is everywhere. Calcium,sodium, potassium, magnesium. Some of them have to be there. What do those electron shells do?
Nov 26, 2016 8:08:48 GMT -7 @jamesp said:
The new knowledge is that the slurry is as important as the abrasive.
So the kaolin ( Al2Si2O5(OH)4. ) lacks the iron and magnesium. is the iron necessary?
The black gumbo from Kansas sticks to your shoes - up to SIX INCHES!
I will guarantee that electrical conductivity and ion type attraction forces have all-to-do with clay slurries.
I have no knowledge on the subject of conductivity.
But suspensions in ALL types of slurries be it for drilling or carrying ore particles or whatever have performance related to high conductivities.(reading articles)
Perhaps iron is the reason for a high conductivity ? Reduced silica and high clay content raises conductivity, that's a fact.
Kaolin has another benefit when tumbling. It is like 30% aluminum oxide.
And after the coarse SiC breaks down I believe the AO in the kaolin slurry is laying down a fine pre-pre-polish finish.
Take the rocks out of some well broken down SiC 30 running in the rotary and put them in the vibe with AO 500 and they have a darn nice polish the next day.
Just a by product.
Main goal is to have a slurry that carries bigger SiC particles with high attraction(suction) forces to grind rocks faster.
Coarse grind sloooow