(March 6, 2021 at 12:47 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(March 6, 2021 at 12:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You are so funny. Take a rock. Hit it with Mjolnir. Instant sand. You are so funny.
No, that's not what making sand means. Sand contains mineral particles; do you have enough knowledge in chemistry, mineralogy, quantum theory, etc. to make mineral particles out of more elementary particles?
Actually, that’s EXACTLY what ‘making sand’ means. Sand is defined by the size of the particles, not by their chemical makeup.
If I cleave off a 50 tonne slab of basalt and smash it into boulders, smash those into smaller boulders, smash those into rocks, grind those into gravel, then abrade those into sand, I have made sand. I haven’t altered the chemistry of the material at all. No one would look at the original slab and think, ‘Gosh, what a big pile of sand!’.
Boru
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