Chapter 6 Handcrafts In Lava

While Geodon had made the small lake area a place where life could and did live, Nansella made the place a home. She not only carried the equivalent of a third bucket on each trip to the lake, she also brought tasty food for humans, items for creature comforts, and small household items to equip the first cave area.

Geodon had purchased a small supply of the nanostructure adhesive that was used in the manufacturer of the sand-cast homes, and used it as a paste in the layup of larger shards to begin forming a front wall to the cave. However, he had not found a source for the ultrasonic emitter of the resonant frequency that made the nano-adhesive latch its bonds to whatever was nearby. The only place the ultrasonics were used were in the huge construction machines, and nobody seemed to know anything about the ultrasonic emitters used in them.

He finally found some hobby craftspeople on the internet, who made models and artwork out of fine-grained lava sand and the nano-adhesive; and they had built their own ultrasonic generators. They too had found a dearth of data on the specifications of the ultrasonic generator that was used to congeal the sand-adhesive mix, so one of them had built a variable frequency oscillator in the ultrasonic range and used it to drive a variety of ultrasonic emitters, ever watching to see if the adhesive was triggered, until finally one worked. They had found that either 185 KHz or 283 KHz would trigger the latching; and that a combination of both signals created a stronger bond, as if there were two forms of latches in the nano-adhesive, and the usual process only latched the one set of bonds.

Geodon then bought the materials to build the two ultrasonic generators, and found that if the two signal generators were not put together beaming the same direction, if they were placed so as to beam to intersect a targeted area of slurry from directions that were 90º from each other, the strength of the beam intersection's area bond was far higher than the other ways.

And finally he tried it on the beam-shattered material slurry he had mixed and used as mortar for the larger shards of material shocked of of the neighboring tunnel, and it was an instant success, as the wall got to be finally built up into an enclosing structure to function as a cupboard. That ought to interest Nansella, he thought to himself.