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Bonjour, <br>
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If I understood correctly what I read somewhere, odor (particules)
gets mostly transported by the water vapour molecules that they are
clinging to. That's why compost and cat 'toilets' both don't smell
that bad. Drying the matter (and the air) inmensly reduces the
amount of odor. <br>
Now Bill's anecdote made me wonder if the clay particules that like
to bind the water molecules so much might in that process also store
the odor particules. <br>
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André - Fire... huh huh... - de Bouter<br>
France<br>
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Le 15/11/2010 05:25, Bill Christensen a écrit :
<blockquote cite="mid:a062309b8c906626dd086@%5B205.238.182.108%5D"
type="cite">One more little anecdote to add to the earthen
plastered straw bale burn files:
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In 2006 when we did the ASTM burn test down in San Antonio* I took
a couple souveniers (sp?) of baked, water-blasted earthen plaster
home to show the folks in Austin. They were then put in a ziplock
bag (because my wife's nose didn't care for the smokey aroma) on a
shelf with a handful of other buliding material samples and pretty
much ignored.
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Today I opened the bag and there was absolutely no smokey smell,
despite the fact that some of the material was quite well
blackened.
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*see the video at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/resources/straw-bale-fire-test-video"><http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/resources/straw-bale-fire-test-video></a><br>
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