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Default What is that whiteish stuff on bad batteries (ruins stuff)?

On 8/14/2015 8:05 AM, Steven Bornfeld wrote:
Phil Hobbs wrote:

It's a mild organic acid dissolved in naptha, or something close to
that.


I don't think I have ever heard of an "organic acid".
Any examples of mild organic acids you know of?


Stearic acid, oleic acid,....

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