On Aug 27, 12:18*pm, stan wrote:
On Aug 27, 8:58*am, Jim Elbrecht wrote: Usually concentrated chlorine. *A base, not an acid.

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Base: In other words a 'strong' alkali?

'Javex' (Javel?) and some other domestic cleaners may be a 5% solution
of sodium hypochlorite; IIRC?

Also BTW.
Find it amusing when someone will say, for example, 'The acid leaked
out of the battery in my flashlight and the inside is all rusted"
etc .
Then you take the thing apart and quite clearly there is a leaking and
corroded ALKALINE cell!