Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.
I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.
Probably not because it’s extremely useless for 99% of people lol
Does the average person know that a stalagmite is mostly calcium carbonate?
Or that tooth plaque is calcium phosphate?
I think you mean tooth enamel, not plaque
Well no, why would they remember that? They’ve got to remember the chemical formula for one or two quartzes
Of course
I need that brain space for the Windows XP activation code
I knew both! AuDHD for the win.
Umm…what were we talking about again?
Maps, I think? Or ships. Possibly trains…
I swear it was neutron stars.
What if life were to evolve on a neutron star?
Read Flux by Peter F Hamilton if you want to find out.
Gamma-based life. Worlds full of hulk strength insectoids.
Maybe people do know that?
Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.
I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.
I learned about it in school and have seen them in a caves but still had to look it up for the bit.
How about this…does the average person know that the transport latency of Dante audio is around 150 microseconds?
Maybe but I don’t.
does that mean you could use a chunk of a stalagmite as a tums in a pinch? (I think that’s what tums is maybe its a different calcium)