sorry, the subject was water, not acidic or basic  solutions

not splitting hairs, just being accurate.

"water is the universal solvent"

not water plus anything else.

alistair

On 24-Sep-10, at 10:07 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:

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