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   Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 12:38:40 JST Hrefna (DHC)

   Natron is coming along

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 12:39:44 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     Still needs to dehydrate a little longer before storing it

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:56:39 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     • just small circles 🕊

     @smallcircles heh, no, though when I felt it I went "this is a base for soap" then it turned out this was literally correct ^^

     It's for religious purposes: it's used for ritual cleansing and purification.

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     just small circles 🕊 (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:56:40 JST just small circles 🕊

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     @hrefna running an amateur chemistry lab at home? I had to look up Natron.. I think I may have made it in a hi-school chemistry class while making soap. Is that your goal too?

     As a kid I used to do my own fun but reckless chemistry experiments in a small room in our attic. Looking mostly to separate dangerous substances that explode or burn from common household materials. It is luck that my parents' house didn't go up in flames.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:58:54 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     • Medea Vanamonde

     @MedeaVanamonde I would need… about 500 times as much :p

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     Medea Vanamonde (medeavanamonde@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:58:55 JST Medea Vanamonde

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     @hrefna are you making a mummy?

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 15:05:15 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     • Medea Vanamonde

     @MedeaVanamonde Traditional mummification required something like 500 lbs of it, where most of my applications require ten "grains" (about the size of a kernel of corn). So a lot less.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 15:13:43 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     The way it is usually made in this tradition is a lot simpler. It produces a product that for ritual purposes works well, is safe, and is hard to screw up.

     This particular attempt is a mixture where I'm trying to more closely replicate what is found in nature. So it is a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, mineral salt, and sodium sulfate with water and I'm doing everything at lower temperature.

     We'll see if I like the end product.