Can you eat it?
Given that it is coated in silica, my guess is no. It would be like eating 5% sand.
Edible !== Tasty
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#22Do Not Eat
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#23The patent getting snatched up by cosmetics and then re-discovered almost 50 years later makes me wonder how many cool advancements have been lost to industries that couldn't find any value from them.
In many fields there are waves with the patent expiration cycle, for instance 3D printing or VR.
As the patents expire there is a flurry of new research, everyone obtains new patents and it becomes impossible to create viable products again, until the patents expire and the cycle begins again.
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#24Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes.
I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
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#26I wonder if this sort of silica coating could be an alternative to lipid-wall cells for silicate-based extraterrestrial life.
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#27Apparently one can make dry water with a blender - mix fine silica powder and water in a 1:19 ratio (by mass) and put it in a blender for a few minutes. I'm not going to risk my blender to try it, so who's first?
Blenders can be replaced. I would worry more about silicosis.
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#28Humans are dry water
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#29Seems potentially useful for applications where you need a really high specific heat but different viscosity properties.
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#30Can you eat it?
Yeah, modulo particle size ( https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2018/01/18/EFSA-raises... ) it's inert (used as an anticaking agent, additive number E551), but don't breathe it in; silicosis is not much fun. (The FDA limit is 2% by mass of product, but it's silica. Silica is _extremely_ chemically stable.)
I was wondering if it was toxic or non-toxic. Silica gel packets say "do not eat" but they're in a ton of our food packaging so I'd hope they're non-toxic.