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Well while digging in my garden i found wierd stones, they feel liek rubber and some are very large. They are shiny and seem like silicon. They also seem latex like and are black, hence the name. I melted some of it and got a sticky black goo, whcih when mixed with WD-40 gave me a liquid which when cooled gave me a thick, tar like substance, any one know what the hell this is, what uses it has ect.
Pics should be coming some time soon if you need them.

I think you discovered your great grandfather's condom dump

john bunsenburner wrote:Well while digging in my garden i found wierd stones, they feel liek rubber and soem are very large. They are shiny and seem like silicon. They also seem latex like and are black, hence the name. I melted soem of it and got a sticky black goo, whcih when mixed with WD-40 gave me a liquid which when cooled gave me a thick, tar like substance, any one know what the hell this is, what uses it has ect.
Pics should be coming some time soon if you need them.

It could be left over chunks of creosote used back in the day of hot tar roofing.. sometimes in cleanup, broken chunks were discarded. They do feel rubbery.

Yeh, it sounds like a kind of tar. Put a blowtorch to it and see if you can burn it, if not then you probably have a tile sealing tar as technician suggested.

hmm, both ideas sound very plausible as the house was built back in the 70's.

Wow, what an awesome post...
You find a mysterious black thing in you back yard, and the first thing you try is to melt it and then mix it with WD-40...
Seriously, WTF?
The first rule of everything is that you don't mix chemicals, if you don't know what they are, and especially you don't mix heated chemicals, because that will only speed up any reaction that could occur...
Not that anything bad would necessarily have happened by mixing it with WD-40, but was that really the first thing that came to mind?
"Hey, I found a mysterious object, let me try to melt it and mix it with WD-40 to see if I can create an elixir of eternal life!"

Well it was the first thing I could think of, i just grabbed the can and sprayed away.

Oh and the melting and boiling point/ decomopistion temp. are very close together as it is as good as impossible to get a molten batch without a bit of smoke.

I will go grab a camera and make some pics!

I love you john! Don't listen to lenta, those skeptics always ruin discoveries.
No seriously you made my day with that post... "I melted soem of it and got a sticky black goo, whcih when mixed with WD-40 gave me a liquid which when cooled gave me a thick, tar like substance, any one know what the hell this is, what uses it has ect. "

Oh once i read it i laughed out loud, I guess i love my self too! ok now to the pics:



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You can see bleroticon in its three stages blerotonic ink, bleroticon the all important goo and of coarse blerotonite the mineral which is mined my my very own back yard which produces bleroticon. The main ingredient, WD-40 is also diplayed along with the carbon dioxide that is pumped into the molten blerotonite using the funnel shaped glass object with the cork handle/bong during the bunsen process to yield bleroticon.
The bunsen process is performed in several stages:
1. The soid blerotonite is put into a metal cylinder along with WD-40(the cylinder is filled with about half the amount of WD-40 compared to blerttonite)
2.The cylinder is heated with a small butane torch until the WD-40 has turned black and starts to boil
3. The carbon dioxide is bubbled through the solution, the heating is continued until all blerotonite has fully disolved
4a.The bleroticon is poured into a mold and then immersed into water, it emidiately cools and goes intoa semi solid phase
4b. The bleroticon is boiled over, the liquid that flows out of the cylinder is called blerotonic ink and can be used like regular ink.

The question what the hell this is and how the hell I can use it still stands.