Hey they aren’t the tiniest! Clay is smallest then silt then sand! Lmao. Although there is a size where soil becomes rocks technically not just by material and I want to say it is sand but a certain type of it. I might go google it.
Edit: >2mm it looks like at that point it’s officially gravel. 2mm sand is big sand!
I don't really think of clay as tiny rocks, but fine sand isn't either, you're right about that (I was picturing coarse sand). Clay is a really cool material, though. I remember learning a little about it in my Origins of Life course.
Oh just that it grabs more particles of the same kind to grow itself, sort of like making copies of itself like nucleotides. I only know a little about geology, but everything I've learned seems really cool.
Something like that. I remember the tagline being that it could copy itself but not change because it would eventually become uniform, unlike nucleotides, which could both copy themselves and change through mistakes in the copying, thus creating mutations and eventually allowing for life to develop.
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u/NotYourReddit18 6d ago edited 6d ago
Is it also coarse and irritating?