Cooking the Granite

Marcell Fóti @FoMaHun ("Ancient Mysteries’ Researcher 🗿 Inventor of The Natron Theory 🧂 Solved the artificial granite problem 🪨 with caveman materials only... 295 Following 16.2K Followers) reckons he knows " How to soften the (indestructible) granite?":

There’s a vivid legend among South American indigenous peoples that their ancestors could soften stones. And – watching my video, me softening red granite in a pot – you might be inclined to agree.

But it wasn’t done with plant sap; instead, they used another liquid. And they did not soften stone althought it looks exactly like that. More on that later.

So, what is this mysterious liquid? If I told you, everyone would slap their foreheads and say, “No way, it can’t be that simple.” But yes, it really is that simple.

How can I keep you guessing a little longer before I spill the secret? Let’s talk about the cast stone walls of Peru first. The walls of Sacsayhuamán…

No, no. Let’s cut to the chase. Here’s the secret: the liquid that seemingly "softens" granite isn’t plant sap, but the juice of burned plants—wood ash lye, a.k.a. potassium hydroxide.

And that’s it.

THAT’S IT!!!!

Potassium hydroxide has a melting point of 360°C. When heated beyond that, it starts to slowly, then increasingly rapidly, "consume" the granite – or more precisely, the quartz that forms the backbone of granite.

(So, you don’t even need natron or temperatures of 851°C to "soften" stones.) Here’s what actually happens: the molten potassium hydroxide reacts with quartz (SiO₂) to form potassium silicate (K₂SiO₃), which, after purification, becomes a transparent, slippery industrial adhesive—perfect for making geopolymer, aka synthetic stone.

The reaction looks like this:
KOH + SiO₂ → K₂SiO₃ + H₂O

So, the question isn’t how hard this is to do, because any fool can manage it with an electric stove, a pot, and some potassium hydroxide. If you don’t have any, just soak wood ash for 24 hours, filter it, and boil down the liquid.

The real question is: how the heck does nobody know about this? How is it possible that something this simple is utterly unknown?

Sure, dogmatic beliefs can paralyze curiosity—like the blind faith in the "indestructibility" of granite. “Oh, it’s impossible; no point in even trying!”

Right. But here’s the thing: if someone lights a fire on top of a rock, rainwater soaks the ash, then they light another fire, this phenomenon would occur on its own.

No research and invention necessary—just observation.

How could no one in our civilization notice this? And not just in the West—the indigenous peoples of South America, Indians, Japanese, and everyone else in the 21st century seem oblivious too.

How is that possible?

Were we all zapped by some red light?

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