Re: Bucket cap question

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Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi scot, Duncan, all

May be sodium hydroxide is more soluble ? May be copper is less
reative ? one thing I know; here we have a product call DRANO for
clug sewer pipe it's composed of sodium hydroxid and aluminium chips.

Luc Benard

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> 
> Original poster: "Dr. Duncan Cadd by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dunckx-at-freeuk-dot-com>
> 

> 
> Hydrated or slaked lime, calcium hydroxide, is not very soluble, a bit
> less than two tenths of a gram per hundred ml of water. (FWIW it's
> also strange stuff in that it gets *less* soluble as temperature
> increases!)  Also, the solution reacts with atmospheric carbon
> dioxide, depositing calcium carbonate over time (or more quickly if
> you blow into it through a straw: "lime water" is the classic lab test
> for CO2 in exhaled breath!)
> 
> Dunckx
> Geek#1113 (G-1)

> Hi Michael...
> 
> Calcium hydroxide is caustic once it is mixed with water in sufficient
> amounts. Aluminum wouldnt last long at all
> in this enviroment.   one of my favorite "experiments" as a kid was to mix
> sodium hydroxide with strips of
> aluminum and water in a coke bottle to produce hydrogen to fill balloons
> with. ( BTW it produced a fair amount of
> heat in the process)
> 
> Scot D