This is silly.  The subject was water.  The claim was made about water.  Give it up.  DMc

---- Mark Hineline <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET> wrote:
> Who said you get to make the rules?
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> ;-)
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> On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Alistair Bell wrote:
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> > sorry, the subject was water, not acidic or basic  solutions
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> > not splitting hairs, just being accurate.
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> > "water is the universal solvent"
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> > not water plus anything else.
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> > alistair
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> > On 24-Sep-10, at 10:07 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Mark
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David McNeely