[TheForge] Harden & temper

[Bruce Freeman]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
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> Bruce wrote:
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>> Lye can also be considered a "component" of soap, if you look at it
>> that way.
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> Well, only in the same way that nitric acid is a "component" of black
> powder.  Unless the soap was improperly made, that is.

THAT was my POINT, Mike.  The "sodium hydroxide" in Basic I is
probably only formally there -- an additive used to adjust pH.

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> FWIW,
> - Mike
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> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>                                                           /V\




-- 
Bruce
NJ