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#587 - Geoffrey Drumm - The Land of Chem. Ancient Chemical Manufacturing Plants, Egyptian Blue and the Red Pyramid

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What if There Was Acid Rain?

The red pyramid is about 400,000 square feet. You can extrapolate how many gallons of paint or this coating compound you would need to paint the entire red pyramid. So again, it's not only a functional material that is resistant against acids and solvents. What if there was an environmental event and there was acid rain? I'm proposing that on the Giza plateau, we were producing sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid. All it takes is a small disaster that we've already talked about. Some of those gases getting into the atmosphere and then you have acidic rain, which can very, very easily cause all of those erosion patterns.

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