Sand..............?

Question

what's liquidized sand? what's made from it?

Answer 1

Sand means different things to different

people. A genteral, non-technical

dictionary definition for sand is "loose

particles of hard broken rock". More

restrictive definitions als exist which

depend upon the frame of reference or

academic discipline to which the

meaning of sand is to be applied. For

example, to a sedimentologist sand is

an unconsolidated (loose), rounded to

angular rock fragment or minteral grain

having a diameter in the range of 1/16 to

2 mm (0.0025 to 0.08 in.). An engineer

on the other hand may restrict the

meaning of sand to include only

rounded framents having a diameter of

0.074 mm (retained on U.S. standared.

"Stones are

primordial matter.

Sand is matter

ground by the infinity

of time. It makes one

mindful of eternity.

Sand is matter,

which has been

transformed and has

almost become

liquid and spiritual."

Unknown Author

awsome quote!!





    What Is Sand?





sieve no. 200) to 4.76 mm (passing U.S. standard sieve no. 4). Practically, sand

may be considered to consist of small detrital fragments (rock or minteral

particles liberated by mechanical disintegration of parent rock material), biogenic

particles (shells or shell fragments) or chemical precipitates (evaporites or

oolites) occurring in nature and distinguishable by the naked eye.



A sand sample can be described in terms of grain size, color, composition,

morphology (angularity and shape) and surface texture. Grain size is a result of

several factors, including composition, durability, severity of weathering

conditions, transport distance from its site of origin, and physical sorting by wind

and/or water currents.

I guess liquid sand would be sand melted at an extremely high tempriture over 1000C.

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