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Polymer Water Crystals Have Many Uses Beyond Saving Water
Water absorbing and storing polymer crystals have many applications other than growing plants and saving water.
By using polymer Water Crystals, your plants — flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns and houseplants — have a better chance of getting over missed waterings and of surviving drought conditions.
But, polymer water crystals have many other uses around the home and in industry.
Water crystals are popular in hand crafts and home decorating, for festive decorations like floating candles and candle designs. They are regularly used in wedding table designs. They can be easily colored to any spectrum of the rainbow.
They are the material inside hot/cold compresses for muscular/skeletal care, hot and cold packs and evaporative coolers (also known as cool ties, cool wraps, spin and neck coolers) for the head, neck and family pets. Florists use them in shipping. Horticulturalists extend the shelf life of their plants by incorporating them in soil. Some potting soils now contain them as a standard ingredient.
Water Crystals are used in a variety of proprietary products in many industries, including humidors, commercially-produced hot/cold packs, drink chillers.
They are even used to feed roaches and crickets by those who raise reptiles. Organizations purchase them for adult and children events at picnics. Some are even packaged comically to be used as a hot soak in bathtubs. (Beware of clogging drains; and be sure to follow supplier instructions!)
They’ve been used to fight fires and as fire retardants. In small containers, they will absorb water from the bottoms of contaminated fuel tanks. They’ve been used in feedlots to help clean up messes and spills. They have been used as emergency water absorbers in floods.
Their main application is to help reduce irrigation in agriculture, home vegetable and flower gardens, house plants, and container gardening. After all, the use of Water Crystals in soils dramatically increases long-term, water holding capacity.
Water Crystals help nurture healthy plants. These polymer crystals contribute to healthy plant life and growth by reducing plant stress from too much or too little water. These polymers effectively absorb excess water, alleviating runoff and storing it until needed by plants.
Their use actually improves soil structure as they expand and contract in hydration and dehydration. As a gardening product and soil amendment, Water Crystals significantly lengthen intervals between watering. This is true for lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, house plants, container gardens, trees, and field crops.
It is a myth (perhaps propagated on the Internet) that the crystals are harmful to plants or take water away from them, replacing the water with harmful chemicals. Instead they capture excess water and store it for plants.
When hydrated, each dry granule turns into a gel, containing the water it absorbs. By squeezing a hydrated crystal, the polymer won’t leak moisture. Instead, it will break into smaller crystals or particles that dehydrate to smaller granules.
Super absorbent polymer (SAP) granules, when hydrated, save irrigation costs and help prevent plant stress from dry conditions in throughout the world, in nurseries, sod and turf farms, crop fields, in home gardens and residential lawns.
See how a small investment in this amazing product will help preserve your plants and help care for both indoor and outdoor container plants, improve soil and reduce water bills. You cannot find a higher quality polymer crystal. Genuine Water Crystals are a quality processed, cross-linked polyacrylamide co-polymer. Despite the long technical name, Water Crystals are environmentally friendly and safe to all animals, pets and plants. See for yourself. Go to: http://WaterCrystals.com
About the Author
Learn more about Water Crystals and how to use them in container gardening, flower and vegetable gardening, and how they fight water and drought stress for your lawn, trees and shrubs by visiting http://watercrystals.com. Register there for a free applications guidebook.
James Fullen is a marketing professional with strong consulting, public relations, advertising, and editorial credentials. He can be reached at 719.599.7141, by e-mail (james.fullen@tandemnet.com), or through his firm’s main website TandemMarketing.com
What genre of music is it considered when it sounds like a cross between Nu-metal and electronic techno?
Back in the early 2000s there was a genre of music that sounded like a cross between numetal,techno ,electronic and maybe alternative .A few examples of this would be Low Fidelity Allstars ”Battleflag” and The Crystal Method ft Scott Weiland ”Murder ” what genre of music would these songs be considered ?Do you know some other bands ,artists or DJs with a similar sound ,I really miss music like this they used to play it on my local modern rock station late at night .
There’s no quick answer here, so brace yourself for wall of text:
Techno has become kind of a blanket term for most electronic music; technically what you have here is Big Beat, or Chemical Breaks(also called West Coast Breaks) Big Beat tends to be louder and harsher—closer to, say, Prodigy’s territory.
This is going purely off of the two examples you provide, mind you–both of which seem to have more in common with electronic funk than they do with metal of any kind, but maybe that’s just me.
Check out ishkur’s guide to electronic music if you want to learn more:
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
Click on the ‘Breakbeat’ tree. Big Beat and Chemical are located to the far right of the tree, it provides 5-6 samples of each genre once you click on it. I have a feeling Big Beat is more what you’re after, though. Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Wildchild, and Fatboy Slim all fall into this genre.
If that ain’t what you’re after, list me some more examples and I’ll adjust my answer. Happy exploring; Ishkur’s Guide is fun stuff.
Karla Kam – Austrian Crystal Cross