#dirt class

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guess what. the semester is over and I need to repot some plants so today I went to the store and bought DIRT. yeah that's right the scientists can't stop me anymore. DIRT DIRT DIRT DIRT DIRT

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today on shocking soil science information, apparently people put battery acid in soil sometimes. on purpose. to help. and it works

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what's the coolest thing you've learned in dirt class?

gotta be real, I thought so hard about this and I Do Not Know, but yesterday we used a carcinogen in lab. uh. they made us wear gloves and safety goggles but mine were so scratched up that I went to the fume hood and rinsed out the containers we put the carcinogen stuff in and then I went back to my group's table and threw my gloves away and took off my horrible scratched safety goggles and then I looked at the containers and was like um guys is it just me or are those still a little too yellow (the carcinogen-containing solution was yellow) and we asked a TA and she was like yeah probably go re-rinse those and so I used a different pair of safety goggles and they were SO much better and I could actually see this time so I did adequately rinse the containers yippee. that was was pretty cool

I do get the sense that you're looking for more of a fact, though, so I'll tell you that there is this website where you can look at the molecular structure of different soils and it is super cool!

(ignore that it's on smectite. I just put it there because that's what I was looking at. btw smectite has crazy shrink-swell properties so do not build your house on it)

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smectite goes crazy fr

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what the heck is a Limnic Haplosaprist that's not a real thing

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I think the whole first chapter of this textbook is just "SOIL IS COOL >:^( and you better not call it dirt"

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clorpt

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soil described as "violently effervescent"