As an insecticide, it can,depending on the insects external structure,get between the layers of the exoskeleton (skin,if you will) ,and in a short time,destroy the body,and in the leg joints,cause destruction that will prevent the insect from being able to move.
@@thespartanamongus1121 Basically what I had said.I simply didnt go into all detail.If they cant move,they dont eat...they die,bleed or not. But the fact is,the minute amount of powder that destroys the joint isnt enough to absorb fluids in lethal quantities.Any fluid that contacts the powder,stops at that point,and acts as a dam.Dont believe the nonsense you read on the web.Its the same web that passes stupidity around,such as the hollow earth concept.
@@sweetbeepIt's an extremely fine powder. While sprinkling, it will fly all over and the slightest breeze will pick some up and blow it around. It's also an extreme irritant when inhaled (even a little bit) and can cause severe reactions, especially in people with COPD and/or asthma. When I say extremely fine powder, I mean it makes confectioners sugar seem granular and easy to clean up.
We used it to filter some blood plasma concentrates, but during a Regulatory Inspection they said that each batch we used should have an expiry date. The product is almost 3 billion years old! Still, we had to put an expiry date on it.
I remember as a kid, sitting on a concret slab topping a short brick wall, and when I looked at the "concrete" closely, it looked sort of like this. There were all kinds of loops and minute shells and bobbles. I still don't know what it was exactly, but this brought back the memory. Also, I remember thinking how lucky the people were to have such a special thing in their yard.
I had an ant problem in my bathroom for months, used ant bait and all sorts of traps. Nothing worked except for this stuff! I haven't seen an ant in weeks.
@@Eduardo_Espinozarice is an edible food, bugs eat rice. This is literally powdered glass, naturally powdered glass is less edible to bugs than powdered rice, and also much sharper and more damaging. What would rice do? And don't say "dry them out" rice is not a dessicant, it just absorbs water, the whole "phone in rice" thing is a joke, rice is not that dessicating, in real life outside of memes.
Still, doesn’t sound like something I want to ingest. Why is it not listed on the ingredients list for flour? It needs to be if it’s included. So I am not sure I believe this story.
I got some food grade stuff because i heard you can take it to get rid of parasites. I'm afraid to try it. I think I'm supposed to mix a spoonful with water
"Silicate" is also the elemental body of quartz crystal. It is also used in watches, Iphones, I pads, Laptops for its ability to hold and store memory.
Silica is silicon dioxoide, aka quartz, and the most abundant mineral on or in Earth. That's what diatom shells are made of. It's used in watches because it is piezoelectric, it generates electricty when struck and vibrates when a current is applied to it. Doped silicon is what microchips (technically just the transistors) are made of and form all the logic gates within computers. Silicates are a class of materials that contain the silicate (SiO4)2- ion. Three different things.
@@needamuffin I did not know that about the shells, but I greatly appreciate your addition. Sincere gratitude from me to you. I really doubt anyone ever reads my garb, but if they do, we will be there.
@@ufva8029 it's wild. I've seen many times guys sanding it and cutting it in a massive cloud of it without a mask like it's nothing. It's actually more common than you would think sadly
@@sillkthashockerthat makes me sad because my great grandfather was a stone mason granite worker guy, he had horrible breathing problems in the last year's of his life and was on an oxygen mask because of it. Take care of your lungs, he didn't for so many years and wore the masks they gave him (I still have the masks and his tools downstairs) but it caught up with him decades later because it never goes away.
I consume food grade diatomaceous earth. It helps with getting rid of any parasites inside the system and apparently it’s good for your nails. They’ll grow faster than usual. Also it’s good for dogs if they have ringworm or any skin issues.
It's actually really bad for you. It has traces of cyanide and other toxic chemicals. I know they sell it as a health product, but it's just another way for them to make money by pretending something unhealthy actually detoxes you and makes you healthier. It's even worse for your dog so please reconsider using it on him
Works great on fleas__you just need to be super careful when treat your pets. CAREFULLY sprinkle some into your hands then, apply__but not around their eyes or nose! Again, carefully, rub into fur getting close to, but not rubbing into, the skin__it can be irritating to pets with sensitive skin because it's very drying. If you have carpeting sprinkle DE throughout, especially, in corners where fleas will hide. Do this close to the floor so you don't create a dust cloud, rubbing into carpet as you go, particularly, if plush or shag-type. And make sure to keep pets out of room while doing this! You must leave in carpet, at least, for about 3 days before vacuuming__better if you can leave it longer__so the eggs won't hatch and larvae won't grow into adult fleas. Sometimes you have to retreat, depending on the degree of infestation__but if you're diligent it REALLY DOES take care of the problem. Of course, the ideal thing is not to bring fleas in, in the first place. On that note, my cats never go out yet, I ended up with a terrible problem because my sister's cat had fleas and they hitched a ride to my place in her purse! One of my kitties has sensitive skin and is allergic to every collar and liquid application so I was at my wit's end__until I discovered DE! It took several applications(and a real "b... buster") because our apt. was totally carpeted, and we had some things stored in boxes and bags so, LOTS of cleaning out, but it DID get rid of them! Only get "food grade" because all others are highly toxic to humans and pets! 😺😺😺
Why would you do that to the chickens? Don't you like worms with the rotting chicken flesh? Also parasites, pesticides, blood, feces, semen, goo... what gets rid of that?
It's a great way to get rid of embedding fleas on poultry. Sweep it into the corners of your henhouse. I also dusted the hens with it like normal fleapowder.
Hello Sir... Have been following your videos since a few weeks... We have a query regarding neem leaves... Could you do an experiment with neen leaves? Do they disinfect water by just putting in water? Would be really helpful!
I saw an advertizement for people to consume it, because the ad stated that it would rid the body of worms and other parasites, by cutting them up as it passed through the body.
Yes it does kill intestinal worms. I use it as a dewormer for my animals. Kills anything with an exoskeleton. Surprisingly enough intestinal worms do have an exoskeleton.
Only the intestinal parasites. It won't kill the ones lodged in the brain, eyes, ears, heart, organs or blood, nor the sexually transmitted one's. For more info on killing those, watch the parasite videos on Parasites Without Borders. Scroll to the bottom to find those. So important as they cause a lot of harm for humans & they don't teach this in medical schools.
How does it help the pipes stay clean? Its main properties of killing things is drying them out, yet that would cancel out with the wetness of the drink. So your parents were just shoving silica down your throats for no good reason.
It's crazy that certain forms of life are privileged enough to utilize other forms of life(and their corpses) to succeed. Earth must be the only non-hostile planet.
Kills soft bodied insects (plant pests in particular like thrips, spider mites, mealy bugs, fungus gnats etc.) because the shards actually puncture their bodies, which causes them to dry out like you mentioned. Gotta love that stuff, I used it for years with cannabis crops.
The reason it is good for treating parasites is because the shards of shell cut the bodies of the parasite and they die. It's good for human consumption and is also used as a source of calcium. If you dust it onto your garden plants the bugs again get cut by the shards and die.
That's cool. It also works really well on fleas, when you sprinkle it in nooks, crannies and the like and let it sit for a few hours or a day if you have time. You don't want to breathe it in and keep your pets away but it does work as a less toxic insecticide on fleas. My vet recommended it because I said no way will I spray chemicals or poisons in my house. Hope this helps someone :)
One thing that always gets me: Are fossils the actual hard bits of the organism, or some kind of mineral replacement like molding/casting process? Or both interchangeably?
It's only an "insecticide" because the "powder" works its way into the joints of bug exoskeletons and cuts them to ribbons so they stop moving...until they die. In regards to bed bugs, it couldn't happen to a nicer bloodsucking critter
the way i learned it was the little slices of the diatoms just sliced the exoskeletons of bugs all up, and the air just slowly seeps in and kills them in antagonizing death of dehydration. No one challenged that view for me, so after 20 sumthin years, its stuck as my standard model understanding of diatomaceous earth. things could be worse. i still have the same bag i bought 20 years ago out in the shed. i think i didnt use it because i didnt want to hear the bugs scream.
Just used it yesterday. We filter on the ground under a layer of fresh sleeping hay for our goats. It greatly helps with wet patches, mites and the abundant ants we have in the desert.
It comes in different grades. A food grade (which is not toxic) and not food grades, which probably do contain arsenic and other heavy metals like you are thinking of, although I have only ever dealt with food grade stuff.
My understanding is the abrasive diatom shells and broken bits get into the joints of the insects exoskeleton then abraid them down rendering their joints unusable. Horrible way to go but solved my wood ant problem without harming my cats or myself with chemicals. I havent tried it yet, but if you very lightly powder your pets fur it kills lice, ticks and other vermin (beware not to breath it while dusting).
And if you do end up breathing it in the technical term for it is Pnumomonoultramicroscopicsillicovolconiosis which causes damage to the lungs via the inhalation of silica dust.
Works for fleas, but if you put it in carpets, be cautious about the strain on your vacuum cleaner. Use a shop vac and change the filter (outside) often.
Yeah, you should avoid breathing any kind of silica as you could get silicosis. I work in an industry that uses ground silica as a filler material and we go to great lengths to protect our associates from breathing it because it can be airborne pretty easily.
diatomaceous earth food-grade can also be used as a oxygen absorber for long-term food storage such as rice or beans or you can sprinkle it in the bottom of your food buckets and then put your bags inside, you don't even need to wash it out you can cook and consume your rice and beans and pasta and anything else you use it as a oxygen absorber.
I like it how people that reincarnate always come from animals like lions or tigers or wild horses. Never stuff like this anonymous diatomaceous stuff.
Food Grade DE and Baking Soda mixed 3 parts Baking Soda to 1 part DE makes a fantastic toothpaste. It takes a little getting used to but your teeth feel as clean as coming coming from the dentist
It would seem to act like any other fine yet sharp material once breathed in. Which means it could also cause cancer due to constantly breaking cells in the lungs until you get the big bad mutation.
I was hoping it would show HOW it works. Not only does it dry out insects but gets stuck in their joints. Imagine having glass shards inside your knees.
I find diatoms to be so beautiful. it looks like little gadgets and gizmos, data of life
@trollolol ,
I saw that, too! 😛💖😺
Thatd be good wall paper
It's a junk yard 😅
Agreed.
I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty 🎼
As an insecticide, it can,depending on the insects external structure,get between the layers of the exoskeleton (skin,if you will) ,and in a short time,destroy the body,and in the leg joints,cause destruction that will prevent the insect from being able to move.
horrifying to think about
Cuts up the joints and not only basically shreds the insect, but aborbs their blood as they bleed out
@@thespartanamongus1121 Basically what I had said.I simply didnt go into all detail.If they cant move,they dont eat...they die,bleed or not.
But the fact is,the minute amount of powder that destroys the joint isnt enough to absorb fluids in lethal quantities.Any fluid that contacts the powder,stops at that point,and acts as a dam.Dont believe the nonsense you read on the web.Its the same web that passes stupidity around,such as the hollow earth concept.
Not a very kind thing to do to a bug.
I think I will stick with garlic and other plants the bugs not like so they never land.
We need a Diatomaceous Earth Day!
Or just a diatom day? Since “diatomaceous earth” is just diatom corpses?
@@thejonofalltrades Sure!
@@thejonofalltradesdied diatom
I always liked the sound of that stuff: “diatomaceous earth.” It would make a good 1970s band name! 😊
Forreal. Some wild, greatful dead, pink floyd acid vibes, haha
For the gardeners, while it may kill ants, if it ends up in the air it can kill your bees to. Precautionary tale.
How does it end up in the air?
@@sweetbeepIt's an extremely fine powder. While sprinkling, it will fly all over and the slightest breeze will pick some up and blow it around. It's also an extreme irritant when inhaled (even a little bit) and can cause severe reactions, especially in people with COPD and/or asthma.
When I say extremely fine powder, I mean it makes confectioners sugar seem granular and easy to clean up.
@@oldsguy354 ok thank you!
This helps with severe constipation!! It really works, I've given this to a few people that I know.
😳💩
We used it to filter some blood plasma concentrates, but during a Regulatory Inspection they said that each batch we used should have an expiry date. The product is almost 3 billion years old! Still, we had to put an expiry date on it.
Lol😅
What a load of BS! Right...
This is a true story
I hope you used an expiration date that started with a 3, like 3024.
I remember as a kid, sitting on a concret slab topping a short brick wall, and when I looked at the "concrete" closely, it looked sort of like this. There were all kinds of loops and minute shells and bobbles. I still don't know what it was exactly, but this brought back the memory.
Also, I remember thinking how lucky the people were to have such a special thing in their yard.
I had an ant problem in my bathroom for months, used ant bait and all sorts of traps. Nothing worked except for this stuff! I haven't seen an ant in weeks.
How did you use it ?
How did u use it
Food grade version is also used in flour and other food to keep bugs out / kill them
That’s what I heard.
Why not powdered rice?
@@Eduardo_Espinozarice is an edible food, bugs eat rice. This is literally powdered glass, naturally powdered glass is less edible to bugs than powdered rice, and also much sharper and more damaging. What would rice do? And don't say "dry them out" rice is not a dessicant, it just absorbs water, the whole "phone in rice" thing is a joke, rice is not that dessicating, in real life outside of memes.
Still, doesn’t sound like something I want to ingest. Why is it not listed on the ingredients list for flour? It needs to be if it’s included. So I am not sure I believe this story.
I got some food grade stuff because i heard you can take it to get rid of parasites. I'm afraid to try it. I think I'm supposed to mix a spoonful with water
It's funny how many people are experiencing pareidolia looking at the diatoms. People are seeing faces, sedans and police cars!
"Silicate" is also the elemental body of quartz crystal. It is also used in watches, Iphones, I pads, Laptops for its ability to hold and store memory.
Silica is silicon dioxoide, aka quartz, and the most abundant mineral on or in Earth. That's what diatom shells are made of. It's used in watches because it is piezoelectric, it generates electricty when struck and vibrates when a current is applied to it. Doped silicon is what microchips (technically just the transistors) are made of and form all the logic gates within computers. Silicates are a class of materials that contain the silicate (SiO4)2- ion. Three different things.
@@needamuffin I did not know that about the shells, but I greatly appreciate your addition. Sincere gratitude from me to you. I really doubt anyone ever reads my garb, but if they do, we will be there.
I use this at work for DE filters and it’s very horrible to breathe in because it costs your lungs
I watch guys breathe in granite dust day in an day out and they dont even care
@@sillkthashocker
that made me shiver
@@ufva8029 it's wild. I've seen many times guys sanding it and cutting it in a massive cloud of it without a mask like it's nothing. It's actually more common than you would think sadly
@@sillkthashockerthat makes me sad because my great grandfather was a stone mason granite worker guy, he had horrible breathing problems in the last year's of his life and was on an oxygen mask because of it.
Take care of your lungs, he didn't for so many years and wore the masks they gave him (I still have the masks and his tools downstairs) but it caught up with him decades later because it never goes away.
@@sillkthashockertheyll suffer for it later in life :(((
I consume food grade diatomaceous earth. It helps with getting rid of any parasites inside the system and apparently it’s good for your nails. They’ll grow faster than usual.
Also it’s good for dogs if they have ringworm or any skin issues.
It's actually really bad for you. It has traces of cyanide and other toxic chemicals. I know they sell it as a health product, but it's just another way for them to make money by pretending something unhealthy actually detoxes you and makes you healthier. It's even worse for your dog so please reconsider using it on him
Works great on fleas__you just need to be super careful when treat your pets. CAREFULLY sprinkle some into your hands then, apply__but not around their eyes or nose! Again, carefully, rub into fur getting close to, but not rubbing into, the skin__it can be irritating to pets with sensitive skin because it's very drying.
If you have carpeting sprinkle DE throughout, especially, in corners where fleas will hide. Do this close to the floor so you don't create a dust cloud, rubbing into carpet as you go, particularly, if plush or shag-type. And make sure to keep pets out of room while doing this!
You must leave in carpet, at least, for about 3 days before vacuuming__better if you can leave it longer__so the eggs won't hatch and larvae won't grow into adult fleas.
Sometimes you have to retreat, depending on the degree of infestation__but if you're diligent it REALLY DOES take care of the problem.
Of course, the ideal thing is not to bring fleas in, in the first place.
On that note, my cats never go out yet, I ended up with a terrible problem because my sister's cat had fleas and they hitched a ride to my place in her purse! One of my kitties has sensitive skin and is allergic to every collar and liquid application so I was at my wit's end__until I discovered DE! It took several applications(and a real "b... buster") because our apt. was totally carpeted, and we had some things stored in boxes and bags so, LOTS of cleaning out, but it DID get rid of them! Only get "food grade" because all others are highly toxic to humans and pets! 😺😺😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 you can just put DE in their water and they’ll be good lol
@@everyneed3959 Again, DON'T feed your pets diatomaceous earth. It has traces of cyanide and other toxic chemicals and can literally *poison them.*
Is this a joke? You can eat this stuff? Also, how eould you even suspect you have parasites inside your 'system'?
Natural chicken dewormer.
Like eating billions of microscopic shards of glass.
Shreds the worms in the gizzard and intestines.
Interesting. We raised Cornish game hens and chickens back on the farm. Iggy Pop sang about chickens in “Lust for Life”. 😜
@@BrettELothrop Groovin' on the Iggy Pop reference.
Why would you do that to the chickens? Don't you like worms with the rotting chicken flesh? Also parasites, pesticides, blood, feces, semen, goo... what gets rid of that?
It's a great way to get rid of embedding fleas on poultry. Sweep it into the corners of your henhouse. I also dusted the hens with it like normal fleapowder.
Yup! I put it in their nests and in their food.
diatomaceous earth was part of my first chemistry set.
Cool!
Do you have a video of putting this on some mites?
Yessss would love to see this in action
DE is used in a ton of products from kitty litter to deodorants.
Great clip
Diatomaceous earth works great for chickens, it is a food supplement for them and controls bird mites.
I use it in the garden! Perfect for getting rid of fungus gnats!
This is why I get aggravated when people say it's useless when it gets wet. Don't listen to everybody, use your brain.
Hello Sir... Have been following your videos since a few weeks... We have a query regarding neem leaves... Could you do an experiment with neen leaves? Do they disinfect water by just putting in water? Would be really helpful!
I saw an advertizement for people to consume it, because the ad stated that it would rid the body of worms and other parasites, by cutting them up as it passed through the body.
An ad is the last place you should be getting info.
It's hard on the gut in my experience.
Yes it does kill intestinal worms. I use it as a dewormer for my animals. Kills anything with an exoskeleton. Surprisingly enough intestinal worms do have an exoskeleton.
It was probably for Food Grade DE
Only the intestinal parasites. It won't kill the ones lodged in the brain, eyes, ears, heart, organs or blood, nor the sexually transmitted one's. For more info on killing those, watch the parasite videos on Parasites Without Borders. Scroll to the bottom to find those. So important as they cause a lot of harm for humans & they don't teach this in medical schools.
As a beekeeper, this stuff helps me to ensure my hives don't get repeatedly infected with hive beetles.
We used it in the filter system of the local municipal pool, circa 1985.
Hundreds of pounds per treatment.
😀I have always wanted to SEE this !!! Thank You!!!💜🖤💫
Great name for a band.
When I was younger we were given it regularly in our drink to help make sure the pipes stayed clean
How does it help the pipes stay clean? Its main properties of killing things is drying them out, yet that would cancel out with the wetness of the drink. So your parents were just shoving silica down your throats for no good reason.
Why dont you still use it as maintenance for your pipes
@@mwdouglas3794look up mud water
@@mwdouglas3794it's kills Parasites, also. 🐞
@@mwdouglas3794 what are you talking about?! It has a laxative effect & cleans parasites from your system
This is great! Can you please do bong water?
It's crazy that certain forms of life are privileged enough to utilize other forms of life(and their corpses) to succeed. Earth must be the only non-hostile planet.
looks a lot like nano tech lol
Poor little diatoms. At one point thousands or millions of years ago they were just swimming around vibin'. :c
Diatomecious earth came handy with the bed bugs!
Please. How did you use it? Pls share
People don't realize that by ingesting it you can also read your body of parasites it's really quite amazing
I’ve found on my farm it works the best on insects that don’t fly and are forced to walk around all in it and through it. Like ants.
Whats a good microscope suggestion for a beginner that has a camera like yours?
Not gonna lie, it looks like a microscopic junkyard.
I love all the little patterns and shapes❤
I love that stuff. It's the only thing I've ever seen annihilate both bed bugs and German cockroaches.
Kills soft bodied insects (plant pests in particular like thrips, spider mites, mealy bugs, fungus gnats etc.) because the shards actually puncture their bodies, which causes them to dry out like you mentioned. Gotta love that stuff, I used it for years with cannabis crops.
I want to see a close up of "Lung Butter" a.k.a. A smokers phlegm.
Never heard it be called that. That’s disgusting
Fake news
Hah! I always call it lung butter 😂
Silica, for those who don't know, is also known as SAND!!! Love it when people try to hide mundane shit in technicality...
i wonder if this can help eliminate the self assembling nano technology from the injections?
I'm just in awe that we have micro-fossils and that they continue to have multitudes of uses.
Tooth Paste?
I saw a video about 1 yr ago of this guy recommending brushing your teeth with food grade DE. He claimed he cured his periodontal with it.
It’s a magic bug killer because they step on those micro legos and die of pain. 😭
The reason it is good for treating parasites is because the shards of shell cut the bodies of the parasite and they die. It's good for human consumption and is also used as a source of calcium. If you dust it onto your garden plants the bugs again get cut by the shards and die.
Doh...ancient beings... solving modern problems...
you can also put it in chicken feed, i forget what it does but it is recommended for healthy chickens
Why does it look like an airport scan of my grandmas purse?
“This powdery substance…” had me 🚨
It's supposed to help rid your digestive tract of pinworms.
Great to use around bee hives to keep out beetles and such
That's cool. It also works really well on fleas, when you sprinkle it in nooks, crannies and the like and let it sit for a few hours or a day if you have time. You don't want to breathe it in and keep your pets away but it does work as a less toxic insecticide on fleas. My vet recommended it because I said no way will I spray chemicals or poisons in my house. Hope this helps someone :)
One thing that always gets me:
Are fossils the actual hard bits of the organism, or some kind of mineral replacement like molding/casting process? Or both interchangeably?
Wait! Go back! Isn't that one on the left over there Jimmy Hoffa????
It's only an "insecticide" because the "powder" works its way into the joints of bug exoskeletons and cuts them to ribbons so they stop moving...until they die.
In regards to bed bugs, it couldn't happen to a nicer bloodsucking critter
Btw, the fist instant of this video is so hi res that I finally and freakishly realized how intensely better 6 years of iPhone screen improvement was.
It can also be used to treat internal parasites in livestock, fleas and ticks, and leeches hate the stuff.
Does that mean that diatoms are silica based microscopic lifeforms ?
You are cool as F%@& man ! When I was in school this was not fun. Now I can't get enough
the way i learned it was the little slices of the diatoms just sliced the exoskeletons of bugs all up, and the air just slowly seeps in and kills them in antagonizing death of dehydration. No one challenged that view for me, so after 20 sumthin years, its stuck as my standard model understanding of diatomaceous earth. things could be worse. i still have the same bag i bought 20 years ago out in the shed. i think i didnt use it because i didnt want to hear the bugs scream.
Just used it yesterday. We filter on the ground under a layer of fresh sleeping hay for our goats. It greatly helps with wet patches, mites and the abundant ants we have in the desert.
There’s not very many, but there are a few water plants that use diatomaceous earth as part of their filtration process.
I thought it was high in Arsenic. I read not long ago the brewing was trying to find other filtering compounds?
It comes in different grades. A food grade (which is not toxic) and not food grades, which probably do contain arsenic and other heavy metals like you are thinking of, although I have only ever dealt with food grade stuff.
ive had a bag of this forever and had no idea it was fossil powder
Also used in pool filters, but not the same as insecticidal DM
My understanding is the abrasive diatom shells and broken bits get into the joints of the insects exoskeleton then abraid them down rendering their joints unusable. Horrible way to go but solved my wood ant problem without harming my cats or myself with chemicals. I havent tried it yet, but if you very lightly powder your pets fur it kills lice, ticks and other vermin (beware not to breath it while dusting).
I just snorted a line of diatomaceous earth cause nobody tells me what to do!
This Earth does wonders to get rid of bugs
I use this stuff to help keep scorpions away
Recommended a lot for pets for external parasites but actually should not be used for this in any circumstances, especially for birds.
And if you do end up breathing it in the technical term for it is Pnumomonoultramicroscopicsillicovolconiosis which causes damage to the lungs via the inhalation of silica dust.
i feel like in the future we’ll look at the way we use these the same way we look at how they used crushed mummy remains
If this stuff is capable of damaging your lungs how do they get away with using it in toothpaste?
Another use is as a filter medium. It has an ability to filter out very small particles and is used in drinking filtration and pool filtration.
It os really good to drink. It cleans out your entire system.
Basically clay. Where there's dietary clay.
I don't have a microscope. In an unrelated story, my birthday is coming up.
Works for fleas, but if you put it in carpets, be cautious about the strain on your vacuum cleaner. Use a shop vac and change the filter (outside) often.
It's called ISOLITE from Sumitomo Corporation mined on the backside of Big Bear in CA.
For a moment i started looking for Waldo 😂😂😂
It's used in pool filtration, removing particulate matter down to 2 microns!
If using DE indoors for fleas, be sure to buy “food grade” as to not harm any pets who will inject some while grooming themselves.
I love diatomaceous earth. Fantastic for growing crops.
Yeah, you should avoid breathing any kind of silica as you could get silicosis. I work in an industry that uses ground silica as a filler material and we go to great lengths to protect our associates from breathing it because it can be airborne pretty easily.
diatomaceous earth food-grade can also be used as a oxygen absorber for long-term food storage such as rice or beans or you can sprinkle it in the bottom of your food buckets and then put your bags inside, you don't even need to wash it out you can cook and consume your rice and beans and pasta and anything else you use it as a oxygen absorber.
I like it how people that reincarnate always come from animals like lions or tigers or wild horses. Never stuff like this anonymous diatomaceous stuff.
Food Grade DE and Baking Soda mixed 3 parts Baking Soda to 1 part DE makes a fantastic toothpaste. It takes a little getting used to but your teeth feel as clean as coming coming from the dentist
It would seem to act like any other fine yet sharp material once breathed in. Which means it could also cause cancer due to constantly breaking cells in the lungs until you get the big bad mutation.
You can spread it around the edges of shops to keep bug’s down
It's also used as a filter media in "smoke eaters" for absorbing welding fumes.
I was hoping it would show HOW it works. Not only does it dry out insects but gets stuck in their joints. Imagine having glass shards inside your knees.
It looks like the old book cover wrap in primary school haha
It's used in zip-zorb power that you use to clean up oil spills in your garage and it'd used in Kitty Litter.
In the labs, we use this to filter fine particles. Mix a little with a solvent, stir, let it settle- you have a terrific little filter.
It does not dry bugs out. It gets in their joints and cuts them to pieces.
We used it for filtration in jet fuel. Super fine filtration.
It's also used in swimming pool filters as a filter medium.