Not really. Brick acid is 30% HCL. About what a good gastrointestinal infection will have you spitting from your rear end anyway.
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De-scaling toilet bowl
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What is 30% HCl (I take it that's what you mean) ?
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Or find a suitable schoolboy?
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Excellent idea. If he was red and turns blue, it's alkaline.
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Brick acid, and the contents of your stomach.
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No. If he was red and turns blue, hes just inherited a legacy from a rich uncle.
Everyone knows that.
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Obviously "brick acid" is HCl, but what do you mean by "30% HCl" ?
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Are you sure? Stomach acid is .2 to .3 % HCl, and that can digest pork crackling, aka pigskin.
NT
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But the intestines are alkaline, and a lot of digestion is done by enzymes.
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30% concentration. i.e. 70% water.
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The stomach is acidic. It breaks down some stuff, after that the bile is alkaline, and restores the Ph of the gut to a high value, and saponifies fats or summat.
Enzymes IIRC work in the saliva and the stomach only? Not sure.
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Bugger all use on limescale, no matter how often she's on the TV.
Look, she's _on_TV_ They must be lying, they're in the Lying Cupboard, that place where Tony Blair lives. You know how it works, she poses with the fancy gloves and the tub of MagicStuff, whilst a sweating assistant director heaves a whole new factory-fresh pan onto the set.
A friend of mine cleaned his toilet with aloe vera. There used to be a little aloe plant on a tiny shelf above the toilet. After a few years, the plant had grown but the shelf hadn't. One day he's downstairs when there's an almighty crash. Goes upstairs to find the plant (undamaged) on the floor (undamaged) and the pot (undamaged) lying nearby. -- Surrrounded by the shattered remains of the toilet bowl, which was broken clean in half.
The offending aloe now lives in my house, at floor level.
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Oh thanks! I like that, I hope I remember to use it :-)
I've seen it done.
Instead of a brush? It could work ...
Mary
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He means a 30% concentration of Hydrochloric Acid in water. HCL is the forementioned acid in chemist speak.
Dave
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snipped-for-privacy@meeow.co.uk wrote in news:1114684942.137325.298830 @l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
Not my stomach - I can't get it past my choppers.
And you _are_ what you eat ;-)
mike
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Nah. All sorts of digestive enzymes beavering away along the gut. Saliva's got a starch-breaker (amylase), stomach's got first-stage protein-breaker (pepsin); but the main job of digestion's done in the small intestine, where breakers for all 3 major food groups come along from the pancreas (maltase, trypsin+peptidases, lipase) to end up with molecules small enuff to pass through the gut wall and get either burnt in cells or built back up for structure or energy storage...
Stefek