Sardonyx

First though, there’s a much smaller matter of the sardonyx stone. The chemical makeup of sardonyx is the silicone dioxide seen once before. The issue though with the silicone is the inclusion of those elements giving it a rather distinctive reddish brown streaked color. Remember, before the deposits of sand in water occurring at temperatures of lower heat. These occurrences are found near warm water pools deep in the ground and around sheltering rocks. Beyond that, the water is said to be supersaturated with sand. That’s because there’s only so much sand the water can hold before it begins to fall down to the bottom as sediment. There, the sediment hardens forming the “sard” layers seen in the pale brown of the stone. Beyond that is the “onyx” layer mixed through. This is almost a nice pearlish white color that comes from the deposits of calcite made under the sea, rivers, and lakes of the earth. It almost seems strange hearing of what’s there from which limestone or marble is made. I mean, really, when was the last time you saw beautiful limestone walls all around and naturally found at that. It’s really too much to think about albeit I’ll admit the sight is quite naturally nice. The white cliffs off England’s shores though are one such example formed by the constant pounding at sea. Given what you know about the sea’s natural state and the supersaturation discussed once before, how do you think that these were formed? At it’s base, is a strong calcium mixture. You know, calcium is the mineral that’s supposedly good for your bones, if you ingest enough of it that is. In food, it takes the form of dairy products like milk, eggs, and cheese. In nature though, you can find it in stuff like chalk and eggshells I suppose. First though, you’ll want to crush the chalk into powder or grind up the eggshells to dust. This will make their suspension in the water that much less difficult. For the suspension, you’ll want to do the same thing as the other step only using salt water this time. Come to think of it, you can probably use the same type of water for both and supersaturate the water with both the silica and the calcium at the same time. It’ll probably work a bit better that way. Then once the deposits have settled, you’ll want to simmer over a low heat. This will help the minerals to harden faster somewhat.

A better way of making this is just to take silica though and make the dioxide. For this you’ll want to add the sand to the salt water and let it silt out as described before over low to moderate heat. When you’re done it should look something like a gel in the dish. You’ll also want to make sure it has plenty of water in equal parts to keep itself moist. After, you’ll be needing the sulfuric acid to finish out the equation. Actually, it’s only part of the issue. There’s a lot of other ways to get here but this one is probably a lot more direct. You’ll add the sulfuric acid to the sand mixture that we just silted out from the seawater. This is what is known as adding acids and base. The sand as expected reacts with the water to make a nice base. Well, you could do that or you couuld just try making the salt super salty then adding the sulfuric acid atop of all that. It might work as expected, then again, it just might not turn out exactly that way. That’s why experimenting with it is called a laboratory just to be sure. Then back to the acids and bases. These two as expected cancel each other out in a nice organic reaction. Just be careful handling the resulting solutions though cause the acids and bases will both burn your skin or prove harmful if ingested. Basically, ingested means eaten of course. Anyhow, I’m getting off track. Back to the issue at hand then of how the sulfuric acid comes out. To make that one you’ll need to place the sulfur in a closed container with some water at the base. Then, apply high heat until the sulfur burns. You’ll want to leave the container as the oxygen burns off from the air leaving only hydrogen left. At this point, the flame will go out as the fire reaction is no longer fed from the air. Since it requires oxygen to keep going, the gas will build up along with the water as steam is produced. If enough hydrogen isn’t pulled from the air, it will surely come from the pulling apart of water itself when it turns into steam. At this point, you’ll get a nice liquid solution that forms from precipitate or vapor inside the closed in container. All this put together is where the sodium bisulfate is formed. Then thats what’s added from there onto the silica gel to just make the dioxide. Based on the name it sounds like you’re repeating the steps over again and from the reactions, that’s probably true. Anyhow, it’s much simpler to do it the way of mixing stones from the earth. That makes for sardonyx being found in a lot less dangerous potentially volcanic conditions.