On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:41:14 -0400, bob wrote:

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:21:46 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:01:13 -0700, "bob" wrote:

Years ago I bought a bottle of sulfuric acid from a hardware store with the
intend to open a clogged pipe. I ended up opening the clog with another
method. The bottle sits unused.

Many toilet bowl cleaners use hydrochloric acid as a main ingredient, since

Some brands call it hydrochloric acid and some hydrogen chloride.
Isn't that strange!

sulfuric acid is similar stuff, can I use it as a toilet bowl cleaner?

I don't know about this, but phosphoric acid is similar too, and they
put that in Coke and we drink it. That doesn't mean we should drink
the other acids.

no, no no no....phosphoric acid is a much WEAKER acid than sulfuric
is.

Yes, yes, yes, they are similar in that they are both acids. You don't
seem to have gotten my point, which is that not all acids are alike,
which is the same point I think you made in your first reply to LSMFT,
after I posted.


Maybe ask in sci.chemistry if you can use your bottle of acid for this
or something else.

i have and MS in chemistry, have used sulfuric for 30 years in
industry. this is NOT an application that sulfuric should be used for.

Tell the other Bob, not me.