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Journey to Ixtlan

Lime and Clay under a Microscope

Published: October 22, 2018
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Since I’ve been immersed in working with natural binders on our earthbag-cellar journey I’ve been in awe of and thinking a lot about the natural binders lime and clay.

Yesterday this image of chalk under an electron microscope appeared in my twitter feed and took my breath away:

I then searched for and found this image of clay under an electron microscope:

The rich geomtery of these water-loving natural materials seems to explain their amazing binding qualities.

It seems that the lime particle (chalk) is approximately three times larger than the clay particle!

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  1. Di
    Posted January 3, 2019 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    thanks for sharing….very interesting and wonderful to see 🙂

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  2. Ian Daitz
    Posted October 24, 2019 at 5:51 am | Permalink

    Thanks for this picture. I work with lime everyday. What a joy!

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