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Chemistry help for cleaning the wife's pots & pans with pool acid
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? |
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