Timeline for Creating wood actually as hard as granite
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| May 6, 2017 at 23:27 | comment | added | Wayne | +1. @DonyorM it seems like your key requirements are that future archaeologists would be able to see that the structure involved generically-modified plants and the odd strengthening of wood? The GM part of this would not be that the wood was stone-strong -- that's due to advanced chemistry -- but that the trees grew into building shapes and in a short-enough period of time to be useful, and so couldn't be natural. | |
| May 5, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Catgut | @DonyorM, it is almost entirely inorganic compounds once the petrification process is complete, but it copies the vascular structure of the original plant. It would be very obvious under a microscope that it is essentially a tree made of rock, and therefore neither natural rock nor a natural plant. | |
| May 5, 2017 at 16:02 | comment | added | Mołot | Nice. Similar to Polish black oak, but with oak there is little to no decomposition of original wood, just addition of rock. Glad to see you can go even more "rocky" . | |
| May 5, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | DonyorM | If I chipped off a tiny bit of this petrified wood and brought it to a modern lab, could they -- without context -- tell me if the rock was completely inorganic or from petrified wood? | |
| May 5, 2017 at 15:56 | history | answered | Catgut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |