Eleven days since the dawn of the Miyamoto Popcorn Rock
experiment began, there’s some significant change under way.
The Vinegar Lake is fast disappearing; it seems the
evaporation has picked up its pace. One result of this is the bowl’s inside
surface has accumulated quite a bit of what looks like a bathtub soap ring. I
presume it’s precipitate that was suspended in the liquid and after floating on
the surface, found its way to the inside surface.
That nice formation that was forming at the tip of the rock
has kind of morphed into a yellowish couple of globs of marshmallows. But the
good news is that other aragonite crystals are emerging from the dolomite.
The lake itself is quite shallow now, maybe three-quarters of
an inch deep. The bottom is full of sediment and rock crud, and the acrid
vinegar smell seems to be intensifying.
Wonder how much longer I have to wait for it to become
beautiful. I’m getting impatient.
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