Sunday 5 December 2010

Materials - Caliche (dirt)

caliche - is a dirt that covers 60% of Texas' surface (Logan @ A&M)



A crude sodium nitrate occurring naturally in Chile, Peru, and the southwest United States, used as fertilizer.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, pebble in a brick, flake of lime, from callime, from Latin calx, calc-lime; see calx.]
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I took some home. 



and separated it into respective components: 
thin layer of lime 
water
the rest



and then various 
pieces of rubbish
paper
plastic
textile
glass
and stones, 
which I separated into 
categories by colour
for now. 










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