How To Make A Clay Pot The Primative Way Step 1: Gather your clay. To gather clay you must first be able to recognize it. In its dry state it may look like rocks; in its wet state, like mud. Clay deposits in streams is actually kind of hard and slippery. Easy to break up but doesn't just easily disolve into muddy water like regular mix of clay and silt would. If you take damp clay and push it up between you pointing finger and thumb it will form ribbons. Sand and silt will not form ribbons. How long a ribbon you can form is a technique that field scientist use to determine the amount of clay in soil. More clay equals longer ribbons. Step 2: Gather a large flat rock and a stick and another rock with a somewhat flat bottom to use as tools. The large flat rock needs to be more than a foot in diameter. A flat piece of metal if you have it will probably work even better. Step 3: Allow you clay to dry. This is accomplished by breaking up the clay into as small of...
Copyright: wiredcosmos When you view an atom, the first question you might ask is ‘what kind of atom is it?’ What you are really asking is ‘which element am I looking at?’ You can answer this by counting the number of protons in the atom. The number of protons , neutrons and electrons is the same in a neutral atom- that is, an atom with no charge. So, in a regular Calcium atom, there are 20 protons, 20 neutrons and 20 electrons. The electrons orbit around the nucleus and have a negative charge. An isotope is a version of the element with a different number of neutrons. When the number of protons differs from the number of electrons, you have an ionic charge. A Calcium atom with 20 protons and 18 electrons has a charge of 2+ because it has 2 extra protons, which have a positive charge. A charged atom is called an ion . When the charge is positive, it is called an cation . If the Calcium gained two more electrons it would have a charge of 2- because it has ...
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