Yo, altarego;
Re: your above post.
Not to get technical, but your sort of WRONG and so is the Patent you refer to.
Here is why.
Calcined Earth is an VERY ambigious term.
Calcined = heat treated. For instance, calcined gypsum means - - gypsum dehydrated by heat.
Earth = any dirt, soil, sand, gravel or rock substance.
So, Calcined Earth means = heat treated earth.
The above patent ambigiously refers to "Calcined Earth", and goes on to describe it as " clay based material subjected to a calcination process".
Then, the patent refers to products such as "Turface" & "Oil Dri" as being "calcined earth".
Oil Dri is a liquid spill absorbent. (Psst, on the side they also sell Kitty Litter)
I happen to know -- LOL-- a guy who's girlfreinds brothers uncles next door neighbor's raccoon --LOL-- knows the owner of one of those products & has stood on his property, watched it mined & inside his plant while it was being processed, bagged & shipped.
What he mines with road graders from a dry lake bottom deposit is a combination of low grade absorbent clay & diatomacous earth mix, then heat treats it to remove any moisture content. That makes for lower shipping costs & more effective product.
Diatiomacious earth is low grade Diatomite (DE).
Actual pure Diatomite is a light colored soft friable rock composed of Diatoms.
Check below -- if you doubt that.
http://imcg.wr.usgs.gov/dmmrt/
I happen to know a -- LOL -- guy -- who knows a guy -- who's mother's brother's racoon --LOL -- owns a Diatomite deposit of 30 million tons of demonstrated reserves. I have seen mountains of it & pieces as big as cars bulldozed out of that mountain. Which is a little bigger than fine white powder, don't you think? It comes in all sizes. Whatever you want. The DE sold in garden stores is ground to powder.
The best & cheapest source of Calcined Earth (CE) is actualy the cheapest CAT LITTER you can buy. Sort of looks like gray dusty small sand & pea gravel sized pieces of funky clay.
Of course, you can pay a much higher price & buy it under a differing name, if you want. Up to you? After all, it's just clay based Kitty Litter.
Pure Calcined Diatomite used in water and/or food grade liquid filtation -- is much better than CE. It is sterile, lighter, more absorbent, hollow & inert. Once it has absorbed it's capacity of water, it holds it better & releases it slower. It also serves as an INERT nontoxic insecticide. It works, mark my words.
Mycelium love 1.5 to 2 percent DE in substrate & casing. It acts like tiny micron sized self contained drinking fountains for it. Once the DE is empty of water, the mycelium inhabit it. So, it serves as protective housing for the little white goodies.
.5 to 1% DE in inoculated grain jars used to start other jars with, spread much faster than without it.
Try DE. It's better -- for all the reasons stated above. Of course, clay can serve as a binder in substrate or casing. However, if you mix clay with DE, it defeats 50% of the effectiveness of DE. Because it clogs the pores in DE.
Do a search on Diatoms. That will explain what DE consists of & their individual tiny micron size equal to a hollow spore.
FYI, you eat DE every day. It is in all US grains & cerial products. It is placed there when harvested to stop infestations & kill larva or insects in grain storage & shipment. It doesnt get removed in the milling. If you doubt that? Check with USDA.
The big chemical companies that manufactor chemical insecticides, would patent DE & sell it as an insecticide. Except you can't patent a rock substance from nature.
The big chemical boys usualy buy up any little guy patent that contains DE as an insecticide. They want to keep it's insecticide properties under their thumb & sell their toxic poisions instead, because of the huge profit margins involved. They do however use it to hold some liquid chemical insecticides, because it releases that liquid very slowly. Then, the DE hangs around after the liquid is gone, killing insects all the while.
Okay, I'm done jabbering.
SixTango
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Edited by SixTango (01/30/02 03:37 AM)
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