RE: Rocks

["Yvan Alleau" <yalleau@coas.oregonstate.edu>]

john,
that is about what needs to be said for the use of vinaiger for the
described task.
simple answers are often the best.
have a great day

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com
[mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of John Wubbolt
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 2:20 PM
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: Rocks


Jerry

Vinegar is an acid.... you test it on rocks to see if they have calcium
or limestone in it... if it bubbles... this tests positive for those
things, which will raise your pH and make your water harder if you use
those rocks....  rocks like Quartz, garnate ...... igneous type rocks
dont effect pH... Thats the extent of my chemistry lesson.... Im sure
someone will come here and explain it better , give you more scientific
responses.... but thats the just of it.... if it dont bubble when you
add vinegar , it wont raise your pH... safe for apistos.... sort of

John

Now remember your old high school chemistry teachers saying.....  little
Johnny was a chemist, but Johnny is no more..... for what he thought was
H20 was H2S04.  (Sulfuric acid)


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