On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 16:55:16 +0000 (UTC), James Fidell
wrote:

In article , dmc wrote:
In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:

Don't forget that some of these products have the ball component which
is released by the action of higher temperatures for a long time. The
neutraliser could be in there.

Does that really work?

Being inquisitive I tried opening the dishwasher at various points to
see this process (yes, I know. Nothing you can say will be worse than
what my wife thought :-)) in action and the entire tablet complete with
ball seemed to turn into a soggy mess at about the same rate. Certainly
no obvious "staged release" or whatever it is they advertised.

I've always assumed that the "ball" and differently coloured layers in
dishwasher tablets were all the same and just made up with dyes to make
the user think the different bits do different things. Any "additives"
are a function of the entire tablet, I'm sure.

James


I'm not sure. On mine, the little ball does seem to hang around until
towards the end. Whether it has different stuff in it, I have no
idea, but the end result is OK and that's what I care about.




..andy

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