On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Mark Hineline <hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote: > Now we need to split hairs. No one has said anything about the purity > of the water. Water in the real world tends to be acidic or basic. > Mildly acid water will do a number on calcium carbonate, which, the > last time I looked, is the primary component of limestone and marble. > And dolemite, if I remember my rocks. Ahh.. Welcome to the unreal. This is not real. Its only bits and bytes. Here water is water and lime water is lime water. Acidic water is of course something acidic in it. The "rock" is granite where I live. Much more stable with acids. I could go on and on.. And heres the true acid test: Could we please try to have a little wider perspective instead of assuming the worst possible interpretation of fellow volks opinion and thus dissolving the whole thread into different definitions of random words? |
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