Hello Adam and the list,
hydrochloric acid has been widely used to remove calcite from the mineral specimens. The smell of rotten eggs means usually hydrogen sulphide, so I suppose, you have had a quite heavy liquid to clean the mets. Well, natural product anyway, no doubt...;-
If the stuff has been a mixture of hydrochlorid acide and sulphuric acid, you
have been lucky you didn�t hurt yourselves, huh. If you pour water / alcohol
to this heavy acid, the reaction may be very violent. But the mixture sure
etches irons...
take care,
pekka s
Adam Hupe wrote:
Dear List Members,
We had a pretty strange thing happen in our shop today. We purchased some
so-called "magic cleaning potion" at the Denver show from a hippie that had
beautiful mineral specimens for sale. He told us the stuff works great for
removing calcite from minerals. We asked about meteorites and he said it
would be safe because it is natural, does not pollute and is a "green
product"...
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