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editWhy does this not have a talk page? This article should be expanded. There are a lot of things that could be explored further. Why does magic sand stay dry? Why does exposure to Silica give sand a hydrophobicness? 70.137.160.91 (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2010 (UTC) Anonymous
- To clarify - "silica" is sand. It's exposure to the trimethylsilanol that induces a hydrophobic quality. The sand stays dry because the hydrophobic effect repels the water at a molecular level. As for why this happens... you'd have to understand about hydrogen bonding, chemical polarity, etc. DS (talk) 13:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
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editAdded link to diagram of trimethylsilane and removed reqdiagram tag. Egmason (talk) 10:45, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Merger proposal
editThe following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
- Merge. It's just one specific brand name of the same thing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 02:43, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
- Merge, not enough stand-alone notability. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
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