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**Project:** Creating a functional knife out of salt
**Methods:**
1. **Initial Attempt:** Trying to shape and sharpen a salt crystal from a mine, which proved too fragile and unsuccessful.
2. **Successful Approach:**
* Mixing store-bought salt with epoxy glue to create a moldable substance.
* Shaping the mixture into a knife form using a pre-made mold.
* Allowing it to harden for 24 hours.
* Refining the shape with a grinding machine and progressively finer sandpaper (100, 180, 400, 600 grit).
* Sharpening and polishing the salt knife.
**Outcome:**
The resulting salt knife, although unconventional, demonstrated surprising sharpness and effectiveness in cutting various foods (banana, bell pepper, cucumber, tomato) with ease, even salting them in the process.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text, each with a number and in short sentence form, excluding opinions:
1. The project involves making a knife and using salt as a primary material.
2. Common kitchen salt is usually sold in a crumbly form in stores.
3. Salt is also known as halite.
4. The initial salt crystal used was transparent and came from a salt mine.
5. The transparent salt crystal and crushed store-bought salt are the same substance.
6. Cutting a large salt crystal with a saw creates flying salt particles.
7. Using a hammer is an alternative method to break off a piece from the salt crystal.
8. A suitable salt block was eventually cut out after working on the crystal.
9. The initial salt block was too thick to be used as a functional knife.
10. An attempt to sharpen the salt crystal on a whetstone resulted in it cracking.
11. Store-bought salt was later used for the project.
12. A mixture of starch and polymer glue was created to form a moldable substance.
13. The starch-glue mixture was used to create a mold for the knife shape.
14. Epoxy glue and a hardener were mixed with store-bought salt to create a new material.
15. The epoxy-salt mixture was poured into the starch-glue mold.
16. The mixture was left to harden for 24 hours.
17. After hardening, the salt knife was removed from the mold.
18. The salt knife was then ground and shaped using a grinding machine with sandpaper.
19. The sandpaper grits used for sharpening and polishing the knife included 100, 180, 400, and 600.
20. The sharpened salt knife was tested on a banana and later on vegetables (bell pepper, cucumber, tomato).
21. The salt knife successfully cut through all the tested foods.