[TheForge] Mosquito control in Slack Tub OT:

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Think it messes with their gills. Same with most marine life.
When some outfit spills oil, then uses dispersant to solve it cosmetically...
The damage is probably greater than if they'd just left it alone.


On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:

Soap is a surfacant so steam bubbles won't insulate the steel from the quench. It's one of the key ingredients in Super Quench.

Being a surfacant, maybe it keeps the water from holding air so larvae drown. Cool.

Jer


On 6/5/2013 5:03 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Probably a bit more aggressive quench too
> 
> 
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Kim George wrote:
> 
> 1/6 bar of ivory soap. The soap will disolve and put a film on the
> water. No O2 no mouitos.sq
> 

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