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[Cob] cob Humidity buffers--we always knew it

Amanda Peck ap615 at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 10 22:15:30 CST 2004


adobe bricks

bentonite clay mixed with perlite (crunched styrofoam peanuts might work as 
well)

end-grain wood

They're all pretty fair humidity buffers, according to this article by Tim 
Padfield, who works in the really obscure field of Conservation Physics. He 
also once took a cob workshop.

http://www.padfield.org/tim/cfys/icom_cc99/icom_cc99.php

brief description of the workshop here

http://www.padfield.org/tim/cfys/mudbuf/mudbuf1.php

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