Polluted Dirt

Polluted Dirt

Polluted Dirt is unprocessed biological waste. It emits Polluted Oxygen over time.

Type

Organic

Melting Point

1712.85 °C / 3115.13 °F

Melts into

Molten Glass (SHC: 0.2)

Emits

Polluted Oxygen

Specific Heat Capacity

0.83 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{g}{}^{\circ }\text{C}}$ / 0.46 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{g}{}^{\circ }\text{F}}$

Thermal Conductivity

2 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{m}\text{s}{}^{\circ }\text{C}}$ / 1.11 $\frac{\text{DTU}}{\text{m}\text{s}{}^{\circ }\text{F}}$

Hardness

10 (Soft)

Strength

0.25

Light Absorption Factor

100%

Radiation Absorption Factor

70%

Molar Mass

50 $\frac{\text{g}}{\text{mol}}$

Default Mass

1000 kg

Max Mass

1840 kg

Overheat Temperature

-10 °C / -18 °F

Properties

Solid, Compostable

Code

elementId

ToxicSand

localizationID

STRINGS.ELEMENTS.TOXICSAND.NAME

Polluted Dirt is an Organic Resource.

Properties

If stored at a pressure below 1800g, it emits Polluted Oxygen over time, losing mass in the process, even while inside Storage Bins. The emission rate (in kg/s) is proportional to the square root of the mass (in kg):

$\text{rate}=2\times 10^{-5}\times \sqrt{\text{mass}}$

The emission of Polluted Oxygen can be prevented by submerging polluted dirt in a Liquid or storing it under a Gas pressure of at least 1.8kg/tile.

Usage

• Polluted Dirt can be converted into Dirt inside a Compost at 100% efficiency.
• Sage Hatches can eat Polluted Dirt and excrete Coal at 100% efficiency.
• Pokeshells can eat Polluted Dirt and excrete Sand at 50% efficiency.
• A sublimation station converts Polluted Dirt to Polluted Oxygen at 66% efficiency.
• Geotuners require Polluted Dirt when geotuning a Carbon Dioxide Geyser or Carbon Dioxide Vent.
• Seakomb needs 10 kg Polluted Dirt per Cycle as Fertilizer.

Production

• Outhouses converts 13 kg Dirt into 19.7 kg Polluted Dirt each use, net positive. Which means Dupes will produce 6.7 kg Polluted Dirt more each time. (Up to 13.4 kg/cycle/duplicant.)
• Ethanol Distiller can produce Ethanol and Polluted Dirt from Wood. 1 kg/s Wood = 500 g/s Ethanol + 333.33 g/s Polluted Dirt + 166.67 g/s Carbon Dioxide.
• Water Sieve produces Polluted Dirt as a by-product. 5 kg/s Polluted Water + 1 kg/s Sand or Regolith = 5 kg/s Water + 200 g/s Polluted Dirt
• Pacus and its variants consume Algae and excrete Polluted Dirt.
• It can be harvested on rocket missions to renewable Space POIs:
  • In Swampy Ore Fields at a rate of 378 – 1134 kg per cycle.
• Sludge Press can produce 60 kg Polluted Dirt and 90 kg Polluted Water from 150 kg Polluted Mud. Requires duplicant operation. Production speed is dependent on the operator's Machinery skill.
  • Operator with 0 Machinery: 7.5 kg/s Polluted Mud = 3 kg/s Polluted Dirt + 4.5 kg/s Polluted Water
  • Operator with 20 Machinery: 22.5 kg/s Polluted Mud = 9 kg/s Polluted Dirt + 13.5 kg/s Polluted Water

Tips

• A good way to store Polluted Dirt is in a Storage Bin under Water. This will make it unable to produce any Polluted Oxygen.
• Emission rate examples:
  • 2500 kg of Polluted Dirt emits 10 g/s of Polluted Oxygen
  • 10000 kg (half of Storage Bins) will emit 20 g/s each
  • 20000 kg in one full Storage Bin emits 28.3 g/s