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Crystal Floating

Polymer Water Crystals Have Many Uses Beyond Saving Water

Water absorbing and storing polymer crystals have many applications other than growing plants and saving water.

By using polymer Water Crystals, your plants -- flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns and houseplants -- have a better chance of getting over missed waterings and of surviving drought conditions.

But, polymer water crystals have many other uses around the home and in industry.

Water crystals are popular in hand crafts and home decorating, for festive decorations like floating candles and candle designs. They are regularly used in wedding table designs. They can be easily colored to any spectrum of the rainbow.

They are the material inside hot/cold compresses for muscular/skeletal care, hot and cold packs and evaporative coolers (also known as cool ties, cool wraps, spin and neck coolers) for the head, neck and family pets. Florists use them in shipping. Horticulturalists extend the shelf life of their plants by incorporating them in soil. Some potting soils now contain them as a standard ingredient.

Water Crystals are used in a variety of proprietary products in many industries, including humidors, commercially-produced hot/cold packs, drink chillers.

They are even used to feed roaches and crickets by those who raise reptiles. Organizations purchase them for adult and children events at picnics. Some are even packaged comically to be used as a hot soak in bathtubs. (Beware of clogging drains; and be sure to follow supplier instructions!)

They've been used to fight fires and as fire retardants. In small containers, they will absorb water from the bottoms of contaminated fuel tanks. They've been used in feedlots to help clean up messes and spills. They have been used as emergency water absorbers in floods.

Their main application is to help reduce irrigation in agriculture, home vegetable and flower gardens, house plants, and container gardening. After all, the use of Water Crystals in soils dramatically increases long-term, water holding capacity.

Water Crystals help nurture healthy plants. These polymer crystals contribute to healthy plant life and growth by reducing plant stress from too much or too little water. These polymers effectively absorb excess water, alleviating runoff and storing it until needed by plants.

Their use actually improves soil structure as they expand and contract in hydration and dehydration. As a gardening product and soil amendment, Water Crystals significantly lengthen intervals between watering. This is true for lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, house plants, container gardens, trees, and field crops.

It is a myth (perhaps propagated on the Internet) that the crystals are harmful to plants or take water away from them, replacing the water with harmful chemicals. Instead they capture excess water and store it for plants.

When hydrated, each dry granule turns into a gel, containing the water it absorbs. By squeezing a hydrated crystal, the polymer won't leak moisture. Instead, it will break into smaller crystals or particles that dehydrate to smaller granules.

Super absorbent polymer (SAP) granules, when hydrated, save irrigation costs and help prevent plant stress from dry conditions in throughout the world, in nurseries, sod and turf farms, crop fields, in home gardens and residential lawns.

See how a small investment in this amazing product will help preserve your plants and help care for both indoor and outdoor container plants, improve soil and reduce water bills. You cannot find a higher quality polymer crystal. Genuine Water Crystals are a quality processed, cross-linked polyacrylamide co-polymer. Despite the long technical name, Water Crystals are environmentally friendly and safe to all animals, pets and plants. See for yourself. Go to: http://WaterCrystals.com

About the Author

Learn more about Water Crystals and how to use them in container gardening, flower and vegetable gardening, and how they fight water and drought stress for your lawn, trees and shrubs by visiting http://watercrystals.com. Register there for a free applications guidebook.

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Possible scientific explanations for floating land masses?

I am currently writing a fantasy novel. In it there are several land masses that float in the sky. I really like the idea but I am finding it hard to explain how they float, without plagiarizing other authors.
What I have so far is:

- Some sort of magic is keeping them afloat
- Some sort of lodestone or crystal like object is responsible
- Some sort of technology i.e. propellers
- All materials on these islands are buoyant.

These are largely not suitable/plagiarized. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
However the soltion cannot be to hi tech as the story is set in a renaissance-like epoch.
Furthermore the ideas don't need to be grounded in hard science. They just need to sound plausible.

Thanks again.

Been done you know... in Avatar, with its floating islands. They explain it by some sort of force flux, which can only be one of four forces as that's all the forces there are in the universe: electro magnetic, gravity, and the strong and weak atomic forces. As the atomic forces span only the width of atomic nuclei to hold them together, they are not likely candidates.

You are left with gravity or EM fluxes.

Gravity doesn't work here because it only attracts. The Avatar islands were being repelled from the planet and held in place by vines... very strong vines I might add. You could "invent" anti gravity; this is fantasy after all. And, to a point, some legitimate physicists still think such a particle as the anti graviton, the anti gravity flux particle, is possible... most don't, but a few still do.

Buoyancy is a possibility if the islands weigh less than the atmosphere they are displacing. This would mean a very very dense atmosphere or very very light islands... or a combination of packed air density and light material. I haven't done the math, but I suspect a supporting atmosphere would have to be way too dense and not believable.

The islands might be light if the gravity flux g = GM/r^2 < 1.0 is very tiny so that w = mg would be the small weight despite the large mass m of each island. The problem with this is that the planet's mass M would be so small that it's gravity would be unlikely to retain any atmosphere at all... let alone a really really dense one for the buoyancy.

The islands might also be light if their density were sparse. But from a strength of materials perspective, such islands would be unlikely to withstand much force; so they would probably disintegrate in short order.

But, hey, I just had an idea... what if each island had a plant-like gas sack in its interior? These sacks would be fed by expelled gases from the plants growing on the islands. For example, the plants inhale oxygen and exhale helium or hydrogen. The volume of the sacks would have to exceed the volume of soil, plants, etc. that covered them to be credible lifting forces, but I can see something like this, especially in fantasy, being believable.

EM forces are the last possibility. Although not explicitly said, the Avatar floating island force was implied to be magnetic. Somehow, like poles were facing each other between the ground and the islands. This source of force was implied when the shuttle craft navigation gear got all fouled up as they entered the flux.

I suppose this is possible if we assume an upheaval from the bowls of the planet were to force, say, north pole material to the surface where north pole chunks of land already lay. In which case, the two like poles would repel and the chunks of land would be propelled skyward until the attached vines stopped the ascent. But, there are some real problems with this scenario, not to mention the plagiarism aspect.

I suggest the plant sacks filled with gas. Again, I haven't done the math, but they would be simple buoyancy equations to solve. You need to find out how much weight a given atmospheric density can support (float). For reference, our atmosphere is about rho = 1.23 kg/m^3 dense on the surface. But mankind can handle higher densities, we do it all the time in deep sea diving; so you could go up a bit for your fantasy world.

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