Talk: Sand
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I added a link to the granular matter article, which is not very good at the moment, but nonetheless it is important to identify sand as being a sort of granular material.
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I deleted the somewhat silly entry "People, especially children, love to play with sand on a beach or in a sandbox. On beaches they make a mountain, a pit, canals, tunnels, a statue, a building (such as a sand castle), etc." as being not very encyclopedic. Would anyone interested in mountains and buildings (links in sentence) really want to know anything about this (beach play) aspect or vice versa? After all, there is probably no limit to the images one could make out of sand on a beach. But this is a collaborative effort, and one man's silliness is probably another's encyclopedia. I'm not hard-nosed. I sugggest delete, but leave that to others to decide / Marshman 23:15, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Playing is one of the common applications of sand and worth mentioning. Playing is not silly, no need to declare it a taboo subject. - Patrick 23:43, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I've been giving it some thought and a sub-heading of uses of sand could be made with this one aspect. Others could be manufacture of concrete, beach replenishment. I'm confident that as the encyclopedia grows, items will sort themselves into proper articles / Marshman 04:24, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Grain size says sand is in the range 0.063 - 2 mm. - Patrick 07:57, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I see the disagreement. Let me check into it further. Thanks - Marshman 08:19, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I'm not sure that you can grow watermelons in the sand itself. Maybe this part could be moved to something like sandy soils? --Nk 16:17, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
