[GSBN] Fwd: [SB-r-us] Attic fire, in a straw bale duplex.

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Bonjour,

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.
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.

André - Fire... huh huh... - de Bouter
France



Le 15/11/2010 05:25, Bill Christensen a écrit :
> One more little anecdote to add to the earthen plastered straw bale 
> burn files:
>
> 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.
>
> Today I opened the bag and there was absolutely no smokey smell, 
> despite the fact that some of the material was quite well blackened.
>
> *see the video at 
> <http://www.ecobuildnetwork.org/resources/straw-bale-fire-test-video>
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