Radiation in Lunar Regolith

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Thread: Radiation in Lunar Regolith

# 18368 byvictoriatangoman on Sept. 27, 2003, 3:50 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

--- In ssi_list@... "Dan St. Sauveur"
>
> Two meters all around, that's a lot of quartz! planning on
denuding near earth
> space of stones and stoney-irons?
>

That sure would be a pretty thing! A gleaming quartz Habitat.

No, I was thinking that the lunar regolith, after being stripped of
ilmenite or anorthorsite, would mainly be a residue of silicon oxide
sand, or calcuim oxide.

The sand could be fused together, or just placed into containers.

TangoMan