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Chemistry help for cleaning the wife's pots & pans with pool acid
Danny D. posted for all of us...
What chemistry is going on here?
http://i.imgur.com/C6hStFB.jpg
Specifically, why green?
http://i.imgur.com/A6zmLJM.jpg
The wife loves when I clean the toilets using the patented huckleberry
method devised by Oren of pouring concentrated pool acid into the tank, so,
she asked me to clean the pots and pans ("for once").
http://i.imgur.com/UOjeomJ.jpg
Being a believer in the magic of alchemy, I dutifully pour the HCL:
blob:http://imgur.com/f7bf8cd4-3abc-49dd-9b7d-16a5ae9c04a0
This muriatic acid bubbles and froths quite reassuringly, as if it's doing
something useful:
http://i.imgur.com/EqJPylY.jpg
But the end result is less than spectacular:
http://i.imgur.com/nmyISVG.jpg
It seems the metal *under* the baked-on crud was worn away, leaving the
crud!
http://i.imgur.com/kHCTfCe.jpg
On the inside of the pot, it just seemed to pit the insides like sandpaper:
http://i.imgur.com/XYnQF0P.jpg
The result of all that hydrochloric acid was a large vase of pretty green
"something" ... but what is this green something made out of?
http://i.imgur.com/O5R4g1t.jpg
More importantly, what is my next magic chemical to try?
Heroin + carfentanil? VBG and NOT serious
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Tekkie
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