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Can anybody guess what this is?









It's salt.

So now that you know what it is, do you know where it is?




It's on our garage floor. Most of it is about half an inch high. That one picture shows my glove in the background. Why does it grow this way? I don't know for sure. My best guess is that salt water has seeped into the porous concrete, then as it dries, the salty water comes back to the surface, leaving the crystals behind.

Date: 2009-01-26 12:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] raven-nest.livejournal.com
It is beautiful.

I would say to harvest it.. except for the "black bits of contaminate" shown.

Of course.. naturally harvested salt might have the same things!

My first thought on the first photo was "bread"

Date: 2009-01-26 12:35 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] rivendweller.livejournal.com
I was going to say some kind of fur....

Date: 2009-01-26 12:49 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] vocalista001.livejournal.com
Nice photos.

I'm thinking fractals.

Our world is full of some wonderfully weird stuff.

Date: 2009-01-26 01:24 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
Hmm... now that I think about it, I should probably change the "answer." It's road saslt, so it's probably calium chloride. And yeah, there's a lot of contaminate.

Date: 2009-01-26 01:49 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] shoo.livejournal.com
me too! I thought it was a frozen dog...

Date: 2009-01-26 02:08 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] roadskoller.livejournal.com
All we have is frozen mud.

Date: 2009-01-26 02:09 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] roadskoller.livejournal.com
A FROZEN DOG?!! Your mind scares me.

Date: 2009-01-26 02:31 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] shoo.livejournal.com
me too!!!

Date: 2009-01-26 01:07 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] raven-nest.livejournal.com
salt is still correct... you could put an "a" in front of it.. *grin*

Date: 2009-01-26 06:24 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
Probably calcium chloride. Notice how different the top three pics are from each other. That second one seems to have straighter crystals. They could have changed chemicals partway through the winter. The really curvy crystals are only in one patch of the garage.

Date: 2009-01-26 11:51 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] mummm.livejournal.com
That's really weird! I wonder if you could reuse that salt on your sidewalks....

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