7 ms·
Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes. I'm no
by djrogers 8y ago
Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes.
I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
- gvb 8y agoBlenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis
- tdsamardzhiev 8y agoShould be ok unless you're making dry water as a daily job.
- rthomas6 8y ago"Water dust. Don't breathe this!"
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- TimTheTinker 8y agoOr pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Been waiting for 25 years to use that word seriously. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...
- eganist 8y agoYou've just unironically and contextually used what's currently the longest recognized word in the English language in an unforced manner. There has to be a prize for this.
- somethingroma 8y agoI'm sure it gets used at dry water research meetings all the time.
- ethbro 8y agoOnly the ones with a sense of humour.
- Fellshard 8y agoI hear they prefer deadpan dry humor.
- bacon_waffle 8y agocough
- cerberusss 8y agoFor a minute, I thought I was on Reddit.
- kennyadam 8y agoPlease no. Reddits pun threads contantly derail interesting discussions with low effort shit.
- tomcam 8y agoAgreed. I’m a little envious.
- weeksie 8y agoThis made my day, sir. The wikipedia article was interesting but this . . . chef fingers
- weeksie 8y agoGlad to see the fun police are still out in force here.
- maaaats 8y agoMy guess would be the "sir" is what triggers. It reads very weird, has a bad link to the stereotypes who would use the word today, and the assuming of gender.
- barking 8y ago"TimTheTinker", I think it's a fair assumption.
- kgwgk 8y agoI agree, thinking is for sure a male activity.
- tomhoward 8y agoThe guidelines ask this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." FWIW I've also seen the topic come up on the other side, when commenters have used non-traditional pronouns. "Assume good faith" seems reasonable here, given that the root commenter was merely being very enthusiastic with their praise.
- weeksie 8y agoI could have gone with Madam Tim but I worried it would be too formal. Listen, I have been on this site from the beginning and I appreciate the generally no bullshit tone. I left reddit back when it became clear that HN was the clear successor of the reddit I used to know but killjoy bullshit like parsing "sir" is not what I'm here for either.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoSo what is the scrabble score for that word?
- black6 8y agoMy first grade teacher taught the class that word as the longest in the English language. I remember it to this day.
- ddgflorida 8y agoThis was 40 years ago but we were taught: Antidisestablishmentarianism
- sator-arepo 8y agoHm. I like this one. It feels more like one single word, and not just several long words written without spaces
- TimTheTinker 8y agoIt’s multiple prefixes and suffixes around “establish”.
- growt 8y agoSupercalifragilisticpneumonoultramicroscopics?
- michaelmior 8y agoI'm kind of upset that you beat me to it...I guess I'll have to wait another 25 years...
- tomaskafka 8y agoOr a new disease we'll discover after dumping dry water into rivers and oceans and later drinking it.
- grawprog 8y agoI really wish they used that on the warning labels on the stone slabs I work with every day. It just sounds so much more extreme and terrifying than silicosis.
- beenBoutIT 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator
- godelski 8y agoThat can be easily avoided though. 1) Do it outside or in a well ventilated area. 2) Wear a mask. Extra precaution) Change clothes when done.
- GW150914 8y agoHm, and these are nanoparticles too, right? They could conceivably pass into all kinds of tissues and end up in unexpected places. Silica is pretty inert, but I’d still be leery.
- Splines 8y agoThe only video I could find of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVAPUxSH_6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVAPUxSH_6Q I'd like to see someone interact with it - is it possible to get "wet" from dry water? Can you get the water back out?
- spydum 8y agoImagine you could press it through a filter of appropriate size to block the silicate but permit the water ?
- astura 8y agoMaybe a centrifuge might separate the two?
- zokier 8y agoThat gives an useful keyword to search for, "Aerosil". Finds among other stuff this document, which describes various uses of this silica stuff: https://glenncorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Aerosil_Sipernat.pdf https://glenncorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Aerosil_Sip... Very fascinating peek to behind the curtain of cosmetics industry. The "dry water" stuff is in the last pages. Apparently their advertised "powder to cream" cosmetics are popping up in the market. They have a demo video of the stuff, but in that it doesn't seem to work all that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQTOU1KBkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQTOU1KBkw The commercial products using it (or similar stuff) seem to work fine though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURu28QTlMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURu28QTlMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Bcyo4GmrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Bcyo4GmrY (and now youtubes algorithms will be confused why I'm suddenly looking at makeup videos at the middle of night)
- headmelted 8y agoI've actually tried this, but due to long-chain reactions in the molecular bonds I ended up with a mixture that was around 20% Bumcivilian by volume. I couldn't hear a thing for 20 minutes, so be careful.
- Olipro 8y agoSounds like you got the reaction wrong. If you do it correctly, it should be possible to mafipulate it into powered embenzalmine nitrotamine.
- 83 8y agoI can't imagine it would hurt a blender. Aerosil is an extremely fluffy, almost airy, material that has some interesting physical properties on its own. It's dirt cheap to buy (around $6 a gallon - http://www.uscomposites.com/fillers.html http://www.uscomposites.com/fillers.html). I use it fairly regularly - it's a thixotropic agent for epoxy resins.