2 Dec
2003
2 Dec
'03
7:55 a.m.
How cheap is it? How does it compare to Coke, in
particular? Coke has
sugar and caffiene mixed in, but also has a good deal of phosophoric
acid in it. (I'm assuming, of course, plenty of water rinse
afterwards.)
Myth Busters on TV did an episode about the myths of Coke. I was
surprised to see that it really DID clean battery terminals in a car
better than water. It also appeared to do a better job of cleaning chrome
than the chrome polish they tested against (they didn't say what the
brand was they tried).
However, it didn't appear to do anything for degreasing an engine, or
disolving meat or teeth :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
2 Dec
2 Dec
9:22 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, chris wrote:
It *does* dissolve pennies, and it *does* eat through paint.
Peace... Sridhar
How cheap is
it? How does it compare to Coke, in particular? Coke has
sugar and caffiene mixed in, but also has a good deal of phosophoric
acid in it. (I'm assuming, of course, plenty of water rinse
afterwards.)
Myth Busters on TV did an episode about the myths of Coke. I was
surprised to see that it really DID clean battery terminals in a car
better than water. It also appeared to do a better job of cleaning
chrome than the chrome polish they tested against (they didn't say what
the brand was they tried).
However, it didn't appear to do anything for degreasing an engine, or
disolving meat or teeth :-) 
10:25 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, chris wrote:
in a car
It also happily dissolves teeth - the standard "experiment" in
primary schools here (in the UK) is to have kids bring in teeth
(as they fall out naturally :-)) and leave them in a glass of
coke for a few days (and have a control of a tooth in a glass
of air there too). Tooth-in-coke looks pretty bad after a
few days whereas tooth-in-air does not look much worse than
when it started.
Of course, a real experiment might want to test things like
orange juice as well as coke but then we'd find that OJ is
about as bad as coke. (Although I don't think OJ does anything
for battery terminals - but then if you keep them coated
in petroleum jelly you probably won't need to clean them
in the first place).
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
>How cheap is it? How does it compare to
Coke, in
particular? Coke
has sugar
and caffiene mixed in, but also has a good deal of
phosophoric acid in it. (I'm assuming, of course, plenty of water
rinse
afterwards.)
Myth Busters on TV did an episode about the myths of Coke. I was
surprised to see that it really DID clean battery terminals better than water. It also appeared to do a
better job of cleaning
chrome than the chrome polish they tested against (they didn't say
what the brand was they tried).
However, it didn't appear to do anything for degreasing an
engine, or
disolving meat or teeth :-)
It *does* dissolve pennies, and it *does* eat through paint. 
10:45 a.m.
At 01:55 PM 12/2/03 -0500, you wrote:
Coke does a good job of cleaning car battery terminals but those are
lead-acid batteries and the corrosion products are entirely different from
those produced by "dry-cell" batteries (alkaline, carbon-zinc, NiCad, etc).
Dry cells use a weak oxidizer (Maganesse Dioxide) or an alkaline solution
(Potassium hydroxide) as an eletrolyte where auto batteries use sluphuric
acid.
Joe
How cheap is
it? How does it compare to Coke, in particular? Coke has
sugar and caffiene mixed in, but also has a good deal of phosophoric
acid in it. (I'm assuming, of course, plenty of water rinse
afterwards.)
Myth Busters on TV did an episode about the myths of Coke. I was
surprised to see that it really DID clean battery terminals in a car
better than water.
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