As to my "syrupy" description, that was deliberately vague and wrong (thanks
for running with it, Peter) just to describe what thiosulfate looks like as
it mixes with water, that is to say, there's a swirliness to it (and you can
quote me!). Yeah, it's not really a viscosity issue, but some kind of
reaction is happening.
--Bruce Stallsmith
along the chemical-rich Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: "Todd D. Crail" <tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Precipitate
>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:11:21 -0500
>
>Thanks all for your replies...
>
>Hmmm... I wonder if it was scavenging hydrogen from the fats instead.
>Those
>may be weaker bonds to a carbon in the fat than to the oxygen in water? I
>never saw a decrease in pH, so something is buffering it.
>
>I'm not kidding about it being "smokey". Looks like you opened Jeff
>Spicoli's van door lol.
>
>Whatever its doing, it sounds like my charges got lucky. It just never
>ends
>in aquaria, does it? :)
>
>Todd
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