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> Marc Steurbaut Wrote:
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>>>the evidence would be overwhelming.

>>He has a huge argument: the composition of
>>the stones.

>No, he has no such argument. The provenance of the
>stones explains their composition. Synthetic
>Zeolyte-23 is actually soot and urine that
>accumulated on passage walls in Khufu's pyramid.
>Guess where they got their samples? Passage
>walls.

Not sure if you have seen this paper but it's on their website:

[www.geopolymer.org]

It appears to be full of errors and omissions. For example the %CaO results are impossibly high for a limestone, and the reader is not directly told in the paper that the Teti samples are "weak and extremely weathered" as they do in Davidovits and Morris (1988) on page 85, etc, etc... Apparently, the zeolites have been removed from their website's casing stone formula in response to the complete lack of them being found by their sponsored Barsoum et. al. (2006) article, subsequently being replaced by amorphous silica. Unfortunately SiO2 only make up about 3.5% of the Lauer sample's limestone portion with detrital quartz also included in that (Harrell & Penrod 1993)... amazing how little binder is needed to make a structurally competent rock like Tura casing stone. LOL!!!

Harrell, J. A. & Penrod, B. E. (1993) The Great Pyramid Debate-Evidence form the Lauer Sample. Journal of geological education. 41, 358-363

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