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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Bearcats (was: T-Bear replies!)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:41:13 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <brumby.728100908@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au>, brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
- = They don't sell these cans of acid to the general public where the
- =brumby comes from.
- =
- =<KZAHLLER@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
- =>Unfortunately, even I decided maybe I'd best quit when I discovered
- =>the soda had eaten *through* the cans sitting on top of my frig!"
- =
- = "My father works for one of the places that makes cans around here, and
- =even though Coke is the strongest drink they seem to sell around here, it
- =requires a special coating on the inside of the cans over what they
- =normally put on them."
- = "I never touch the stuff, if it can dissolve ordinary paint off a
- =can...."
-
- That'd be because of the phosphoric acid they use in Coca Cola. It's right
- there on the label, just before the flavorings (note: In the U.S., ingredients
- on food and beverages must be listed in decreasing order of amount). You
- shouldn't take the fact that it can dissolve paint all that seriously, though.
- Do you have any idea what stomach acid can do?
-