This article is about a type of cave formation. For the beverage-consumption tool, see Drinking straw.
Straws (stalactite precursors) in Gardner's Gut.Soda straw.
A soda straw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of caves. Soda straws in caves rarely grow more than a few millimetres per year and may average one tenth of a millimetre per year.[1] A soda straw can turn into a stalactite if the hole at the bottom is blocked, or if the water begins flowing on the outside surface of the hollow tube. Soda straws can also form outside the cave environment on exposed concrete surfaces as a type of calthemite, growing significantly faster than those formed on rock.
^Hill, C A, and Forti, P, (1997). "Speleothem Growth Rates", Cave Minerals of the World, (2nd edition). [Huntsville, Alabama: National Speleological Society Inc.] pp 285 - 287
A sodastraw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws...
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and a multitude of sodastraws and helictites. One section of the cave housing a particularly spectacular group of sodastraws has been dubbed "Silent...
glass with a long-handled spoon, most commonly known as a "soda spoon", and drinking straws. Soda jerks were relatively common in the United States from the...
pointed pendants hanging from the cave ceiling, from which they grow Sodastraws are very thin but long stalactites with an elongated cylindrical shape...
Alabama: National Speleological Society Inc.] Smith, G K. (2016). "Calcite straw stalactites growing from concrete structures". Cave and Karst Science, 43(1)...
non-alcoholic. Types of soft drinks include lemon-lime drinks, orange soda, cola, grape soda, cream soda, ginger ale and root beer. Soft drinks may be served cold...
precipitation. These include flowstones, stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, sodastraws and columns. These secondary mineral deposits in caves are called speleothems...
as stalagmites. Different formations of speleothems include columns, sodastraws, draperies, helictites, and popcorn. Changes in the ambient air temperature...
Throne Room contains one of the world's longest (21 ft 2 in (6.45 m)) sodastraw stalactites and a 58-foot (18 m) high column called Kubla Khan, after...
put a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream in a glass, add Vernors and a sodastraw, and call it a Boston Cooler. While some claim it is named Boston Cooler...
(0.24 in) in diameter, which means they can be packed inside a plastic sodastraw for easy transportation or in a reusable "mint" container.[citation needed]...
speleothems precipitated from near neutral pH solution. One calthemite sodastraw has been recorded as growing 2 mm per day over several consecutive days...
straw (≈ >30 minutes), it may completely calcify over and block the calthemite straw tip. Lattice work or calcite rafts on a calthemite (soda) straw stalactite...
still limited use for easily pulped materials like straw and some hardwoods. A precursor to the soda pulping process was the paper making process developed...
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