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eubIf you sprinkle ordinary table salt on popcorn, of course, most of it trickles to the bottom of the bowl. Salt ground fine in a mortar and pestle sticks much better. Also you seem to get more salting oomph from less salt, due to its instant dissolution on the tongue. The only problem with fine salt is that it comes with hyperfine salt. Fine salt is that which falls; hyperfine salt hangs in the air. When you toss a handful of popcorn into your mouth, a hyperfine salt aerosol drifts up the back of your nose. It makes you sneeze.
The brute-force industrial solution would be a cascade of increasingly-fine sorting screens, like you'd use for grading sandpaper abrasive. But I don't know where to come by screen that fine.
If I could get a roughly-uniform static charge per particle, I could form a size gradient by placing them under gravity versus an electrical field.
Oh, how about agitate the mix, and blow away as waste whatever rises to a certain height? Or instead of dealing with the blower, I wonder if a wet sponge placed up there would capture the hyperfine.
Long shot: exposing the salt mix to humid air might cause more agglomeration among smaller particles, narrowing and shifting upwards the size distribution.
HTML frames vs. the U.S. patent system. All die. Oh, the dancing in the streets.
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The brute-force industrial solution would be a cascade of increasingly-fine sorting screens, like you'd use for grading sandpaper abrasive. But I don't know where to come by screen that fine.
If I could get a roughly-uniform static charge per particle, I could form a size gradient by placing them under gravity versus an electrical field.
Oh, how about agitate the mix, and blow away as waste whatever rises to a certain height? Or instead of dealing with the blower, I wonder if a wet sponge placed up there would capture the hyperfine.
Long shot: exposing the salt mix to humid air might cause more agglomeration among smaller particles, narrowing and shifting upwards the size distribution.
HTML frames vs. the U.S. patent system. All die. Oh, the dancing in the streets.
SBC's Harlie Frost, president of intellectual property, pointed out that the Museumtour.com Web site contains tabs pointing to different Web pages within the site, and those tabs are in a frame that does not disappear as a person navigates the site. SBC said those "features (as well as other valuable features) appear to infringe several issued claims" related to certain patents.
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Date: 2003-01-22 10:32 pm (UTC)I went and shook my salt for a while. Hyperfine just kept billowing out, so good news is that the wet foo may not be necessary, but bad news is that I think I need a mechanical agitator. Maybe somebody in UW Chem is unloading an old mag-stirrer.
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Date: 2003-01-22 11:55 pm (UTC)Um...
... bad news is that I think I need a mechanical agitator. Maybe somebody in UW Chem is unloading an old mag-stirrer.
Not noticeably. :) But that's okay. Practicality is not a requirement for everything, despite what Adult Authority would have us belive. *snaps fingers* Which reminds me to pour some dish soap in the bathtub.
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Date: 2003-01-23 12:04 am (UTC)Oooh, calf-sized bubbles.
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Date: 2003-01-23 12:07 am (UTC)*aggravated sigh*
Or am I making this all too complicated? ;) And yes, taking a bath with dish soap is so fun! I discovered that in grade school, and after that my mom never had to fight to get me to take a bath, though it did terrible things to my skin. But it kicked ass to be able to blow bubbles with both hands bigger than my head! :D