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<blockquote data-quote="Kapnismologist" data-source="post: 106332" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>In the absence of competing analyses, I am more than happy to accept this explanation as being quite far from baloney (and suddenly find myself inclined to go to the kitchen for a sandwich by the way). </p><p></p><p>I do not know if you smoke a clay much, but I have on and off (although broke the last one I had). One thing I noticed with the long clays I have smoked is that after about a dozen or so smokes, the white clay began to become stained yellow/brown in various places where the tars and whatnot created by the smoke we seeping through and solidifying. I could turn these spots back to pure white, however, just by heating up the clay to a very high temperature over a gas flame. Essentially 'scrubbing away' the longer carbon chains through very high heat (i.e., breaking them up to the point that they essentially dissipate into the air as very fine particulate matter, or smoke I suppose). All told, with everything you adduced previously (+ your training in chemistry) I think it all makes a great deal of sense.</p><p></p><p>Many thanks for that and for the above!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kapnismologist, post: 106332, member: 487"] In the absence of competing analyses, I am more than happy to accept this explanation as being quite far from baloney (and suddenly find myself inclined to go to the kitchen for a sandwich by the way). I do not know if you smoke a clay much, but I have on and off (although broke the last one I had). One thing I noticed with the long clays I have smoked is that after about a dozen or so smokes, the white clay began to become stained yellow/brown in various places where the tars and whatnot created by the smoke we seeping through and solidifying. I could turn these spots back to pure white, however, just by heating up the clay to a very high temperature over a gas flame. Essentially 'scrubbing away' the longer carbon chains through very high heat (i.e., breaking them up to the point that they essentially dissipate into the air as very fine particulate matter, or smoke I suppose). All told, with everything you adduced previously (+ your training in chemistry) I think it all makes a great deal of sense. Many thanks for that and for the above! [/QUOTE]
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