Maurice Ward's "Starlite"

[cinco]

Another interesting factoid is that it takes very little liquid to liquify sugar - as anyone who makes 'no bake cookies" will know as it is 4 parts sugar, 1 part cocoa, 1 part butter and 1 part milk. So that's 5 parts dry ingredients to only 2 parts of liquid and the sugar goes liquid almost immediately.

[TechStuf]

I had a laugh when I heard that the minion from dow chemical tried to shove a piece down his pants during a visit.  I'm shocked that a representative from such a fine, upstanding mega cwhoreporation would stoop to such tactics.




TS

P.S. The germans, Kowsky and Frost were studying the piezo electric effect in rochelle salt crystals when they stumbled onto antigravity.  The silica crystals of AeroGel in it's powdered form are also quite insulative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qROX5hDNs

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[cinco]

cornstarch may make the syrup dry dryer, quicker. As it does with silicone (oogoo). It may also sort of "plasticize" it...I don't know.

As you may have guessed, I'm more of a thinker than a doer. I bought some plain white sugar last night so I have everything I need to just do it, yet I sit here and think about it. ROFL! I love thinking and collecting and combining little factoids in my head...but "doing? Not so much. Especially cooking...unless there's gonna be brownies or no-bake cookies or something at the end and I don't need anything "fireproofed", at the moment. I can't even think of anything to heat-proof...maybe a wooden solder stand? That would be cool. A wooden solder stand that doesn't burn...

And I wonder if one could "foam" some sugar goo and spray it on their house...like in wild-fire situations. Just the heat from fire nearby would dry it...of course, if they dropped water on it you'd be sunk...and I don't think you'd want to "plasticize" the exterior of your house...of course, if you had a natural, environmentally safe solvent...like maybe citrus solvent...I wonder...

...and now I'm wondering if sugar could increase the heat-resistant properties of silicone...

[cinco]

I had a laugh when I heard that the minion from dow chemical tried to shove a piece down his pants during a visit.  I'm shocked that a representative from such a fine, upstanding mega cwhoreporation would stoop to such tactics.




TS

P.S. The germans, Kowsky and Frost were studying the piezo electric effect in rochelle salt crystals when they stumbled onto antigravity.  The silica crystals of AeroGel in it's powdered form are also quite insulative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qROX5hDNs

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When you are SOOooo protective of something, you have to expect that. I don't think it has anything to do with trade secrets as much as the nature of higher intelligence abhorring a secret, LOL!

I came across a reference to AeroGel a while back, and meant to go back for a look but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder and the vid link!

[cinco]

Ha! Another reason he couldn't let it out of his sight, why he used an egg for his initial demonstration and why he had to plasticize it:

While it takes a hammer and chisel to physically remove it, dry, from a solid surface, if it is on something flexible it simply cracks as it is very brittle - like peanut brittle (for which "hard-crack" syrup is the base) and, of course, with water, it simply dissolves.

I wonder if peanut brittle or hard candy burns? I know peanut brittle has baking soda, corn syrup and a significant amount of butter in it, but hard candy is basically just sugar and water with tiny amounts of color and flavor additives...and they may coat it with something to keep it dry and keep it from sticking together...I don't know. Come to think about it, hard candy has corn syrup in it too...

At the "hard-crack" stage it's a whole different animal but it would be interesting to note if there are any differences, flammability-wise.

If anybody has some hard Christmas candy, put a flame to it and see what happens. I usually have peanut brittle but didn't get any this Christmas...dang it.

You definitely want to be extremely careful because hot syrup is a BITCH! If you burn yourself, wrap it up in a pee-soaked rag. Yes, pee.

Another little factoid: Pee is not "dirty". It's blood plasma, full of nutrients and hormones. It can fix burns, save you from gangrene and just about any illness you can name. It's what allowed you to grow so fast, so healthy, so perfect and so efficiently when your mom was pregnant. In the womb, you were swimming in pee. It's lab name is "plasma ultra-filtrate" and it is the most researched natural substance on the planet due to its healing, hormone and nutrient properties and is an ingredient in many medicines. I doubt anyone here needs to be told why "they" don't want you to know that. If you can cure yourself - which is enragingly easy - medicine would only be needed for physical damage and wouldn't be able to take every cent you have when you get sick.

You could survive for weeks if you drank every drop and months if you also had water. And it wouldn't even have to be especially clean water. Anyone who wants to go completely "off-grid" should know that. Pee is cleaner than the water from your faucet.