hello hello everybody it's 5:04 p.m. central Time on the 2nd of January 2024 got you here we're
looking at some geopolymer that I've made and I've put into some awesome molds uh so if you're not
aware of what geopolymer is it's man-made Stone and it's poured like concrete and in many cases
it's stronger than concrete but it's limestone in this case poured Limestone and just doing some
test molds to see how things turn out incredible stuff here and it's about as strong as concrete
as it is right now great for indoor uses and if we want to make an outdoor mix I'll be getting
that out at some point but this is great for like mantel pieces lamps tabletops tile decorative art
frames um just all sorts of uses that you can use this for again it's man-made Limestone so when it
hardens it looks like that now I'm going to give you the mix if you want to make it yourself so
I'll give you the mix you can do this you can play around with the ratios and so forth if you
want to make your own and it's pretty easy to make non-toxic material so and all stuff you can just
get either on Amazon or from the hardware store or craft store so one cup of salt water is where
we start out so I used tap water and then I added in one tablespoon of Himalayan salt or just table
salt you could also use so one cup of salt water 1 cup of sodium silicate water glass mixed into
the water so you take the water you add the sodium silicate water glass one cup of that then 1 cup of
sodium carbonate white powdered sodium carbonate you then add 1 cup of calcium carbonate white
powder then final step add 1 to 1 and 1/2 cups of crushed limestone what'll start to
happen is you'll feel it heat up as you add those ingredients in and you do it in that mix so let's
recap 1 cup of salt water 1 cup of sodium silicate waterg glass 1 cup of sodium carbonate white
powder 1 cup of calcium carbonate white powder and 1 to 1 and 1/2 cups of limestone powder and you'll
get a mix like this for indoor use it's going to be great for mantel lamps picture frames Furniture
it's as strong as concrete compression wise and I'll link the Texas A&M University study on
metacin geopolymers and how they're actually going to be replacing concrete at some point
you can also add in pigments you can add in Aggregates other Stones if you
want it it'll bind to Wood it'll bind to Plastics it'll bind to other concrete and
other geopolymers you can pour right on top I used candy molds and Ice Cube molds to make
these and it really is Stone you could throw these against a a wall and they chip just a
little bit that's this one's sealed this one's not sealed I sealed it using more
water glass or sodium silicate and able to make make carnations I mean look at
this
roses all sorts of I mean this one I I I just really like this so I mean imagine what you
sky's the limit you can pour huge pores with this there's hardly any shrinking or expansion so it
just whatever you pour just kind of hardens off that way and doesn't grow or Shrink I didn't get
any cracking or expansion or contraction on any of the pores that I did on any of these these are
some ash trades that I messed up so I got bubbles in this one so that one's kind of screwed and it
I pulled it out too early and it kind of broke stuck to the edges I pulled it out within like
30 minutes of pouring I should have waited a couple hours I was so anxious to see what this
one looked like but anyway when it when you seal it it looks like what you would think Limestone
you know looks like obviously and when unsealed it's really bright like that real bright white
Limestone so sky the limit Duchess is going crazy on this stuff she wants to do all kinds
of stuff with it as an artist you can paint with this stuff you can actually turn it into
a paint and paint with stone so anyway I'm going to upload this video we'll get it out
on YouTube so you can watch it back this is my geopolymer video for people who want to do their
own you can add in pigments yeah you can add in all kinds of stuff I we could go
on for hours on the stuff that you could put into this uh glow-in-the-dark you can mix in
you can even grow crystals in this stuff or on this stuff but you can grow the crystals
in the liquid mix while it's going while it's drying so if it dries within 6 hours you can
grow some crystals pretty quick others might take a few days to grow on the
outside word up much love go ahead and make your own play around with it you can play
around with the ratios on what I just gave you as ingredient list and you can also add stuff
in um at the end at the last step instead of doing Limestone you can do other kinds
of rock crushed to make other kinds of rock or similar looking Rock you would be making
your own man-made Stone so there is no name for it if you combine materials and make something
new you have to actually probably come up with a name for it if somebody else hasn't done it
already anyway I foresee the uses on these like you could put these on four sides of a
picture frame and then connect with filigree in between which we have pores that we can do for
that uh just one use of many right like you can make um imagine doing your whole kitchen
with backsplash with these a bunch of different flowers across your whole kitchen backsplash
three-dimensional solid Stone one final thing I'm going to point out this stuff can be used
as mortar between things you can it's super sticky and it's just as strong as grout so
you can use it as a mortar or a grout in between tiles you can also make tiles out of it to walk on
all right anyway you wouldn't believe the amount of forms that The Duchess and I bought for each
other forms and molds it was like a form and mold Christmas gifting special between each
other we've got so much stuff we're going to be pouring it's not even funny ballades uh mantle
pieces big stuff we're going to be doing with this not just the small stuff like this these
could just be little decorative pieces that are put on to um you know for instance a Ballade and
railing in a house made of this Limestone poured in whatever shape we want and then lined with
ornate pieces we're going to be doing that in our house now that I can pour and make anything
out of stone I think I'm going to be making a lot of stuff out of stone I was also thinking
about things that you can make out of stone that people haven't normally thought of making out of
stone so like an iPhone case or like a computer case for your Tower right wouldn't that be cool
to get a computer case made out of stone I think it would be cool right just stuff that you would
never normally make out of stone that you can make out of stone with this stuff uh sky the limit when
it comes to that how about a computer keyboard why not why not a stone computer keyboard I'll get the
keyboard mold and I'll pour it and then just get the electronics put it on the inside pour each
key there you go one OFA kind Stone keyboards we're redefining what it means to be getting
stoned although I could see some hippie probably coming up with uses for this
stuff too right bro you can make a bong out of it man all right much love guys peace out
I'm going to upload this as a short video 10 minutes long over on YouTube