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24 Nov 06 - 06:32 PM (#1892779) Subject: BS: Salt Flowers From: The Fooles Troupe Hey, I remember similar things... ~~~~~~~~~ Subject: RE: BS: First winter fire-what do you do From: Metchosin - PM Date: 24 Nov 06 - 06:12 PM Wow! I found it! Its called a Salt Flower. Sorry for the thread drift, but thinking about coal in a fireplace took me back to a time when I was 10 years old. Think I'll try growing them again. I didn't realize you could use a brick. http://www.utahrockhounds.com/tooelegem/kids_corner/saltflower.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subject: RE: BS: First winter fire-what do you do From: Foolestroupe - PM Date: 24 Nov 06 - 05:51 AM Metchosin As a kid, we used to be able to grow the 'coral' from kits of 'rocks'. I also remember having a very special 'chemistry for kids' book, one item in which was how to do that from scratch, including crystals such as copper sulphate. Don't remember the ammonia, but I do remember sodium silicate - water glass. Most of the chemicals were readily available from a hardware store, or occasionally a chemist, but these days you'd probably find yourself in Gitmo if you even asked for them... ~~~~~~~~ So anybody else - and are there any expert geologists/chemists out there? Robin |
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24 Nov 06 - 06:42 PM (#1892786) Subject: RE: BS: Salt Flowers From: Slag Get your bottle of Mrs. Stewart's Bluing. It has the formula and proceedures written out on the accompanying tag. |
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24 Nov 06 - 09:50 PM (#1892877) Subject: RE: BS: Salt Flowers From: Metchosin Well from the other thread here's the recipe for Salt Flowers |