Now we need to split hairs. No one has said anything about the purity
of the water. Water in the real world tends to be acidic or basic.
Mildly acid water will do a number on calcium carbonate, which, the
last time I looked, is the primary component of limestone and marble.
And dolemite, if I remember my rocks.

Mark

On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Alistair Bell wrote:

> the claim was for that.
>
> Solvent?/ it does not dissolve rock, it erodes combined with
> freezing, particle abrasion etc.
>
> tell me please, the solubility data of rock in water?
>
> now do same for hydrofluoric acid
>
> universal solvent is just hyperbole.
>
> alistair
>
>
>
>
> On 24-Sep-10, at 9:44 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
>
> Golly, Alistair, look at the Grand Canyon. Almost all of it started
> out as different kinds of rock, weathered to sediments, deposit on a
> shallow seabed, then uplifted and weathered again to create the
> canyon.
>
> The claim isn't (or should be) that it's the most effective solvent
> liter for liter. It's that as solvents go, it has done the most work
> over time.
>
> No BS.
>
> Mark
>