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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1975]]
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<div class="heading">It is made from salt. It is called sodium silicate. (laughter).
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius|Morning Walk -- October 5, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (break) ...is also known as Magadha. Magadha. That is the... Candragupta and others, they were reigning in Bihar, emperor of India. Jarāsandha also belonged to Bihar. (break) ...a great scientist?</p>
<p>Cyavana: Yes, I studied.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How this sand is made?</p>
<p>Cyavana: From the rocks it is... They call it weathering. The weather makes it ground up from the rocks. This is their theory.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Isn't it shells from the animals?</p>
<p>Cyavana: Some. Some from rocks, coral.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is made from salt. It is called sodium silicate. (laughter)</p>
<p>Cyavana: They say this is combination of shells, coral, and rocks, ground up.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But if it's salt, Prabhupāda, our experience of salt is generally that it dissolves in water, isn't it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Silicate there is.</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Salt and silicate.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You know something of science?</p>
<p>Indian boy (2): Some.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is melted in fire and glass is made.</p>
<p>Cyavana: It becomes clear.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that you have to add chemicals.</p>
<p>Cyavana: Oh. (break)</p>
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