The Pyramids (just a few of them) as Lost-Advanced-Technology Chemical Factories

 

American CEO of some company Matt Beall promotes La-la-land nonsense again: 

Matt Beall Limitless 

@mattblimitless

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Geoffrey from

@TheLandOfChem

talks about the central pyramid chemistry: how sulfuric acid from the Great Pyramid reacts with sodium chloride (salt) to produce hydrogen chloride gas. Dissolved into solution, that becomes hydrochloric acid. Why produce hydrochloric acid? Two critical applications: Water purification: Hydrochloric acid creates ferric chloride, used for purifying water supplies. Valuable for maintaining civilization. Gold extraction: Combine hydrochloric acid with nitric acid (from atmospheric nitrogen reactions) to create aqua regia - the solution that dissolves gold. Essential for processing metal ores and extracting gold from raw materials. Catch the full episode below: YouTube: https://youtu.be/BsGEzRGCAJM Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4TN2Eo

 Hmmm. So, not a tomb then?? I guess the causeway leading to what is otherwisse interpreted as the funeral temple is a power supply conduit leading to a transformer room, from the power-generating plant in the valley temple below the site ("ancient electricity flowed upwards"?) . And the ancient chemical factory just happened to be crowded in from all sides by serried rows of tombs of the 4th and 5th century elite, because the ancient necropolis planners got the maps wrong. 

Geoffrey Drumm is the guy behind @thelandofchem channel, known for proposing that ancient Egyptian pyramids and megaliths were part of a massive industrial, chemical processing system. His work focuses on evidence of chemical residue, ammonia production, and energy manipulation in ancient structures. He posits that sites like the Red Pyramid were utilized for industrial-scale chemical engineering rather than just being tombs (and his ideas seem to stem from witnessing strong ammonia smells and chemical staining inside the Red Pyramid, later connecting this to findings like strontium residue). He believes this is evidence of "artificial terraforming in the Sahara, using pyramids for fertilizer production, and harnessing electric fields for chemical catalysis". That is, what he speculates.

Aqua regia - he will therefore be able from his "research" and "investigations" be able to list all the Egyptian and Ptolemaic texts describing the use of aqua regia for gold refining. That would be helpful, as the earliest ones currently known to scholarship are from early Islamic times (Jabir ibn Hayyan around 800 AD?) and the use of chloroauric acid for the Wohlwill process (invented in the West in 1874). Aqua regia is not actually all that easy to keep and use in any bulk quantities, no doubt Mr Drumm has some information on how the ancients did that.

        How Grok imagines it       

Nitric acid - Drumm and Beall say it is made from Ammonia.... and that's made from atmospheric nitrogen. Today, as most schoolkids learn ammonia for fertiliser and (historically - WW1) explosives production is made by the Haber process. Before that was developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch in 1913, nitric oxide (from which nitric acid is derived by dissolving nitrogen dioxide dissolved in water) was made by the less efficient Birkeland-Eyde process (developed in 1903 by Kristian Birkeland and Sam Eyde) that fixes atmospheric nitrogen using electrical arcs. Which of course we all know the Early Dynastic Egyptians had mounted on the walls of all of their pyramids in the "Green Sahara" (sic) times. 

So having made your ammonia (and it stinking out all your pyramids you made it in)  can make nitrogen-rich fertilizers like ammonium nitrate and calcium nitrate via neutralization reactions with ammonia or calcium-based materials. The most common process, producing ammonium nitrate, involves reacting ammonia gas with nitric acid (YouTube video on this; the process the other way around). Where is the evidence that the ancient Egyptians used these processes? If ammonium nitrate fertilisers were being used in a "Green Sahara" to intensify agriculture (for you don't need it for cattle herding) - where are the fields? Where are the field ditches that stopped runoff taking the fertilisers from the soil (as had been happening in parts of teh west in the 20th century) and dumping them in wadi sediments - and indeed, where in the wadi sediments is there evidence of environmental and soil changes (here, here, and here for example) caused by the alleged use of these chemicals on the soil?

Which brings us to the "use of ferric chloride to purify water" - I wonder whether Drumm and Beall have thought this through, what water, where?

These two @mattblimitless and @TheLandOfChem postulate that in the process they claim was the whole reason for building the pyramids, "sulfuric acid from the Great Pyramid reacts with sodium chloride (salt) to produce hydrogen chloride gas" What did they do with the resultant sodium sulphate? Why did the moist HCl gas not react with the limestone, depositing chlorides in the stonework? If they needed so much salt, why did they not build the "HCl-producing plants" (ie pyramids) actually ON the coast, saving transport costs? Or were they just stupid?