I have had great success with the regular Simple Green product on black
residue on glass fireplace doors...I would be willing to bet if Simple
Green makes a product specifically for stone...it would probably work
great. In fact, if you try it, I would love to hear if it worked!

Deputy Dumbya Dawg wrote:
just saw simple green has a product for stone. The
regular simple green works great on natural resins
maybe this will work on the stones.

peace
dawg.

"James" wrote in message
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: Well, I am not so sure of this. I feel certain there
is a common household
: product that will clean smut off of a fireplace.
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: I don't know. I can tell you this, according to the
CRC Handbook of
: Chemistry and Physics, the only substance in which
carbon is soluable is
: molten iron (that's how they make steel), so
searching for a chemical
: solution is probably futile.
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