Brother Ahimaaz
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Interesting. Dross is a particularly puzzling element to me, since Proverbs 26:23 presents us with a variant, "silver dross." Is this just an isotope of dross? A separate element entirely? An alloy perhaps? Puzzling questions, indeed, especially for someone like me, who has studied very little Biblical chemistry (though your post has inspired me to crack open the KJV1611 and brush up on the subject).
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The example pictured earlier is copper dross – it is what is left when you boil out all the goodness of copper – sliver dross is just the same – you boil the silver out and you’re left with dross. You can boil dross all day, and you’re just left with dross. As it has been tested already (see earlier) I subjected it to smiting – nothing much happens, except bits fly everywhere, so it’s an element.
Eze:13:11: Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
I assume that when you refer to “ whitewash” (the common name), you refer untempered mortar (scientific name). Unfortunately, the secret of untempering mortar has been lost (I recall having it in my pocket when I went to the car this morning.)
Morter is slime, probably with Rock in it:
Ge:11:3: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Pastor Ezekiel
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Brother Ezekiel, I wonder if Shittim wouldn't fit into your periodic table somewhere.
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Most interesting, but I’m afraid that is not possible. As I understand it Shittim means “of the Shitt” (or it may just be “Shitts”) So it is wood of the shitts.
As it happens I have just unloaded what felt like a cubic cubit of Shitt and I can tell you that it was a relief when I had finished!