Yikes- this kinda scares me.

[Guest]

I got this email earlier. If it's correct, it's scary- eek!
It's a bit long, but quite intersting.



COKE:

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol
carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to
remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into
the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:
Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds
Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola
into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info:

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4
days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to
clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years.

 

[Amused]

Does it cure Anthrax?

 

[Guest]

Does it cure Anthrax?

Uh, dunno about that but if cavities are ever "in", it'll help in that area.
*shudders*

 

[naudiz]

I hear it's good for stripping that pesky stomach lining, too.

I'd have to ask a doctor or biochemist (and as fate would have it, I just don't have either of those with me right now), but I think the acid in your stomach is pretty strong, too. I heard somewhere it's HCl, but that can't be right, can it?

Man, I used to know shit. I think I'm actually getting dumber every day. I'd make some kind of algorithm to measure this, but me not so good number with.

 

[OUTSIDER]

I knew a guy once who used it to clean motorcycle engine parts

 

[OUTSIDER]

I hear it's good for stripping that pesky stomach lining, too.

I'd have to ask a doctor or biochemist (and as fate would have it, I just don't have either of those with me right now), but I think the acid in your stomach is pretty strong, too. I heard somewhere it's HCl, but that can't be right, can it?

Man, I used to know shit. I think I'm actually getting dumber every day. I'd make some kind of algorithm to measure this, but me not so good number with.

I read once that stomach acid will burn through paper !!

 

[Guest]

Um, I think I'll stick to good ol' fashioned water!
But damn, what will go good with Jack now?

 

[naudiz]

I dunno about stomach acid, but H2SO4 (sulfuric acid) sure will. I used to work with dangerous chemicals in my previous job (they gave *me* Hazmat training - and yet millions of Americans continue to sleep peacefully at night), and I used to know my chemistry fairly well, but like I said, I'm getting dumber every day.

HF was the fun stuff. Hydrofluoric acid. If you got it on your skin, it would feel just like water. Yep, you wouldn't feel a thing...

Till it hit calcium and started reacting violently.

So by the time it got to your bones, there wasn't much you could do except writhe around in agony. Not that this ever happened to anyone I know, but there were always horror stories brought out to scare the newbies when they came on the crew. No one joked around when handling that stuff. Not the kind of stuff you want to disrespect.

The industrial use, for those wondering why to keep such a dangeorus substance around, is etching glass. Eats right through the stuff, but leaves metal alone (I think).

Fun stuff. Man, I miss my job.

Charlie was a chemist, but Charlie is no more.
What Charlie thought was H2O was H2SO4.

 

[estevie]

To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola
into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

i've done this...but with pepsi (friend told me to try it and it is good)

see, told everyone pepsi was better!

 

[Ze Mad Zientist]

Zat iz a nize rhyme... Azids can be verrrry uzeful for a zientist.

Und yez, ztomach azid is HCl.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Yikes- this kinda scares me.

i've done this...but with pepsi (friend told me to try it and it is good)

see, told everyone pepsi was better!

And, obviously, you're alive to tell about it!

All this acid talk in making my tummy hurt.

 

[naudiz]

It's HCl? Woo! Good to know I'm not going crazy. Well, about that anyway.

More food fun: the taco sauce they serve at Taco Time will strip the corrosion off a penny in no time. Polishes them up real nice.

And if you submerge an egg in vinegar for three days, it'll eat away the shell, leaving the membrane intact.

I need more hobbies, clearly.

 

[Ze Mad Zientist]

Vhat could be a better hobby than zis? Vinegar is "acetic" azid. CH3COOH

 

[Ze Mad Zientist]

Ze egg shell iz moztly Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3.

 

[Azwed]

I got this email earlier. If it's correct, it's scary- eek!
It's a bit long, but quite intersting.



COKE:

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol
carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to
remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into
the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:
Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds
Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola
into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info:

1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4
days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to
clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years.

That was posted here a long time ago. Most of it is false, but some is true. Phosphoric acid does have a very low pH but the problem the concentration is so low in coke it does not matter.

There is only a gram or so of Phosphoric acid in each can of coke so the concentration per mole is so low that you don't have to worry.

 

[Guest]

Ah, ok. Sorry, I didn't know it was discussed before. As usual, I'm behind the times.
Thanks to you all for the information. I love this kind of stuff.