[TheForge] Response about Making Ferric Chloride

[Jerry Frost]

Bruce:

Could you answer a question for me? Please don't take 
this wrong but it's been bothering me for years now.

Of all the people on the list the last one who should 
be using words like "suggest" and "speculative" where 
chemistry questions are concerned is you. When you 
speculate too many people take you at your word, not 
knowing you're just guessing. An educated guess perhaps 
but a guess none the less. This adds to the confusion 
instead of being genuinely helpful.

You have the education and if you don't have a proper 
library at home or work you are online. Can't you look 
the answer up before you reply? That way you won't be 
"speculating," the person needing help would have a 
solid answer and we'd all be real knowledge ahead.

You also might try to remember lay people generally do 
not have the correct vocabulary to discuss chemistry or 
other specialized fields so when you jump on someone 
for being "wrong" you might consider they don't know 
which word to use.

Frosty
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>


> Okay, that makes sense.
> So you want to stop adding iron before you make 
> ferrous chloride.
> This would also explain how ferric chloride etches 
> iron - the ferric
> becomes ferrous while the iron also becomes ferrous.
> I haven't looked into the electropotentials of these 
> reactions, so this
> is speculative.
> Bruce
> NJ
>