Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
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Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
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Re: Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
Looks like a viable option if you have hardrock.
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Re: Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
Hmmm .... curious mind wonders if they tried it with just water also ?!
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Re: Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
According to USDA, Pickle juice has a pH ranging from 6.20 to 6.26 which is close to neutral.
Undiluted orange juice (UD) = pH 3.9
Vinegar is very acidic, with a pH of 2–3
There's no reaction with silica - quartz in any case. It's more a matter of the expansion of micro fractures by the pressure of steam combined with thermal fractures IMHO.
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Undiluted orange juice (UD) = pH 3.9
Vinegar is very acidic, with a pH of 2–3
There's no reaction with silica - quartz in any case. It's more a matter of the expansion of micro fractures by the pressure of steam combined with thermal fractures IMHO.
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Re: Curious - Maybe Pickle Juice As a Variant
Level of acidity was never a factor in this thermal shock process used at least in Australia in the late 1800s and possibly into the early 1900s.
And yes, pickle juice was just a thinly veiled joke.
Joe
And yes, pickle juice was just a thinly veiled joke.
Joe
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