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Why does this not have a talk page? This article should be expanded. There are a lot of things that could be explored further. Why does magic sand stay dry? Why does exposure to Silica give sand a hydrophobicness? 70.137.160.91 (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2010 (UTC) Anonymous[reply]

To clarify - "silica" is sand. It's exposure to the trimethylsilanol that induces a hydrophobic quality. The sand stays dry because the hydrophobic effect repels the water at a molecular level. As for why this happens... you'd have to understand about hydrogen bonding, chemical polarity, etc. DS (talk) 13:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Added link to diagram of trimethylsilane and removed reqdiagram tag. Egmason (talk) 10:45, 26 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

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Agree to merging. GenQuest ^"scribble" 00:51, 9 February 2021 (UTC) Non-Administrative closure[reply]

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Formal request has been received to merge: Kinetic Sand into Magic sand; (Note: Kinetic Sand was an expanded redirect to Magic Sand); request dated: January 27, 2021. Proposer's Rationale: it's (as far as I can tell) the same thing, sand with a hydrophobic coating, just a stickier one, in the case of kinetic sand, allowing it to be moulded where magic sand would fall apart. Both articles are pretty short, but Kinetic Sand is shorter. --Ineffablebookkeeper Discuss here. GenQuest ^"scribble" 01:41, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. It's just one specific brand name of the same thing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 02:43, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, not enough stand-alone notability. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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