[Stoves] Draw out moisture with charcoal

[Richard Stanley]

Max , 
I know little of ceramics but if one were able to saturate the exterior few mm of a charcoal mold of a stove liner or as the whole stove itself then fire it one might have a whole new structural and insulative material. If firing and shrinkage rates were compatible and for the materials scientists,  if fusion between carbon and clay were to occur
What would you get?  What kind and quality of both elements would be needed; what tolerances in sorting blending firing would be essential for the process to work if at all?
This is interesting because its implications for stove makers all over the world. Viz monolithic stove molded of a structural AND insulative material from common charcoal and clay .
What are the constraints and it it feasible practically ?
Richard Stanley
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On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:38, Max Turunen <maxturunen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charcoal is amazingly handy thing... and it's many uses are currently new to most of us... many handy things to find out and notice :) 
> 
> (Could charcoal be used to make various ceramic objects... shaped porous charcoal... let finest grained wet clay silt seep in and permeate it... then re-owen it... would that be possible ? would such "carbon fiber porous" objects me useful for some purpose ? would they be flammable ? electricity insulating ?    or would just be better to take lump of charcoal and suck selected wild mushroom species spores to it... tens of mushrooms species per lump... and then have different mycelial spore mixtures readily available, to spore containing charcoal lump needing to be just stomped broken where it's selected local mycelia strains could be needed ? Different mixtures of bioremediating oilspill cleanup sawdusts... or for decomposing old wood materials... or for kitchen food garden... or for greenhouses... )
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> MaxT
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Kobus Venter <vuthisa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stovers
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> Way off topic and dumb but at the same time miraculous and hilarious. I've had the privilege of dropping my Blackberry in the toilet. Amazing how men can multi-task in emergencies: ripped out the battery (before that was just a blur) and proceeded to dry it out (at arms length) with the hairdryer...but what would absorb the moisture remaining in the sensitive circuits? I suddenly recalled reading on the list about the amazing absorbing properties of charcoal. Simply wrapped the phone in a single serviette placed it in a plastic packet and dumped charcoal over it but did not tie it closed. I left it in there for 48 hours to be safe...and here I am typing away on it. I seem to find all sorts of uses for charcoal lately. Why is this stuff happening to me - or more importantly why am I sharing it? Did I tell you about the time we had a sewage leak...oh perhaps another time.
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> Regards
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> Kobus
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