"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" hath wroth:

On the other hand, the case of the pair poisoned by the pewter mug over
ten
years, sounds reasonably possible, given that they were drinking some kind
of ( unspecified ) fizzy reactive beverage from it, which if fruit based,
may well have been quite acidic.

I dig out my handy Exstik II PH meter and measu
Tap water : 6.7
Western Family Diet Lemon Lime: 4.1
Western Family Lemon Lime : 3.3
Coca Cola : 2.6
Ocean Spray Cramberry Cocktail: 3.5
Lemon Juice (added to tea) : 3.0

Oh, here's a PH table from the UK:
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http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/htm...cids/acids.htm

Soda pop and fruit juices are sufficiently acidic to leach out the
lead in pipes and drinking cups.

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OK, thanks for that. Looking at some of those figures, no wonder these
drinks rot your teeth away! It's like drinking schoolboy chem lab bench
acids. I seem to recall that some of them weren't much lower ...

Still, that certainly confirms what I thought about the pewter mug case. We
still don't know what the actual effects of this long term exposure was to
these people, or exactly how much they ingested. I don't suppose that you
have a bottle of beer to test the ph of, do you? It used to be very common
over here for regulars in village pubs, to keep their own ( often pewter )
pint mug behinf the bar. In fact giving one of these as an 18th birthday
gift ( legal drinking age here ) was at one time quite a tradition. My next
door neighbour certainly used to take one with him every night to the local
pub, but I don't know if he still does. I'll have to ask him.

Arfa