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To: Mr. Lucky
"Pitch is an excellent wood preservative."

It's better than I originally thought. Apparently sap pitch requires re-application every 5 years, and Noah probably didn't reapply pitch on the arc after the flood.

Any part of the arc in contact with the soil was most likely attacked by termites and dry rot pretty quickly.

71 posted on 09/30/2026 5:11:48 PM PDT by caltaxed (ake)
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To: caltaxed

Under favorable circumstances, pitch can gradually transform to amber, the oldest known of which is 385 million years old.


74 posted on 09/30/2026 5:29:59 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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