Re: [GBlist] sodium sulfate dekahydrate or dexahydrate

[Chris <kgreens@kingston.net>]

on 8/31/02 1:48 PM, Martin&Caruso at itchpeople@islc.net wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been having another of my dangerous conversations with my brother the
> chemist......Okay you're probably tired of hearing about these, but he brought
> up something he learned about the salt called sodium sulfate dexahydrate, I
> think, aka glauber's salt.  Apparently glauber's salt (which I used to use for
> doing dye work on fabric) is highly efficient at capturing heat and releasing
> the heat later.  My bro read something to me from one of his chemistry books
> about a woman in Mass (I believe he said she is a prof at MIT) who built a
> house using a glauber's salt heating system.  In that climate it was necessary
> to build with a back up heating system, but the article he read to me said
> that it took 11 consecutive cloudy days to deplete the glauber's salt system.
> Anybody heard about this?  If anyone knows of any good links to check into,
> I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>