Sodium Acrylate?

Modeling Subjects Dioramas
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Hi Folks,

I seem to remember that I saw a brief mention of using sodium acrylate beads – the things you add to flowers to retain water and that expand to 150 times their original size – in relation to water as part of a diaorama. Maybe I’m way off base but I thought that here might be the best palce to clear up the issue. Any thoughts about this anyone?

Thanks

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Sodium polyacrylate mixed with water is used to make artificial snow for movies, but not for dioramas, at least that I know of, since it eventually dehydrates and reverts back to it’s original state, loosing it’s fluffy appearance. It is also used for disposable diaper filling…[whstl]

I don’t really see much else in the way of diorama usage.

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Thanks Ixion, I appreciate the information.

Pity about that, they look really nifty and useful.

Maybe I should use them as frogs eggs in a giant frog diorama…