<HTML>I'm lost here, Anthony...
What does mineralization/petrification have to do with what you were talking about?
Can you steer me to either the discussion on this cereal to opal ct to quartz discussion, or anywhere else that has this info. being discussed so that I can maybe understand?
The way you first presented it, Anthony, I was wondering whether there was supposed to be a connection between the elemental make-up of the cereal grains (any chance of high silicon content along with the obvious carbon content) such that the burning process produced some type of silicon compound that when allowed to cool would be kind of like the way glass is produced (just think of it like watching the sap ooze out of a green tree being burned... and then the sap cools into the final product). But the other comments on this thread lead me to believe I'm not on the same subject I thought you brought up. :-(
Help!
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