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actually you can taste an salt, or acid just a drop to tounge spit and rinse. acid will bite the tounge bitter,
(a caustic on my hand make them slimmy making soap out of my dead skin and its oil)
of coarse you can test for acid or base useing the PH meter, or test strips, or red cabbage or phenophthaleine, methal orange etc.
if you suspect salt
You could also see if it dissolves easily in water.
Another test I would use is add to silver nitrate, it would precipitate silver chloride.
sodium in a flame burns bright yellow to orange.
pool store will sell you test kits to test for chlorine or table salt.
if you know what ingrediants you used to get this salt (white precipitant) you can usually tell about what it is by looking at the chemical reaction that created it,
acid and base muratic acid and caustic soda makes table salt water
HCl + NaOH = table salt NaCl + H2O water
so your hydrochloric acid and sodium hypoclorite base can make table salt look at these reactions.
lets make bleach
2NaOH + Cl2 --> NaCl + H20 + NaOCl (bleach)
now look at muratic acid and bleach
HCl + NaOCl --> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O
notice the salt? notice the chlorine gas?
now in the above equation some Chlorine gas Cl2 + H2O water would change back to HCl muratic acid and HOCl bleach
CL2 + H2O --> HCL + HOCl
now these equations are not showing the reaction you have with your metals, and as these salts form they can grab your metals with them in the crystals.
(a caustic on my hand make them slimmy making soap out of my dead skin and its oil)
of coarse you can test for acid or base useing the PH meter, or test strips, or red cabbage or phenophthaleine, methal orange etc.
if you suspect salt
You could also see if it dissolves easily in water.
Another test I would use is add to silver nitrate, it would precipitate silver chloride.
sodium in a flame burns bright yellow to orange.
pool store will sell you test kits to test for chlorine or table salt.
if you know what ingrediants you used to get this salt (white precipitant) you can usually tell about what it is by looking at the chemical reaction that created it,
acid and base muratic acid and caustic soda makes table salt water
HCl + NaOH = table salt NaCl + H2O water
so your hydrochloric acid and sodium hypoclorite base can make table salt look at these reactions.
lets make bleach
2NaOH + Cl2 --> NaCl + H20 + NaOCl (bleach)
now look at muratic acid and bleach
HCl + NaOCl --> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O
notice the salt? notice the chlorine gas?
now in the above equation some Chlorine gas Cl2 + H2O water would change back to HCl muratic acid and HOCl bleach
CL2 + H2O --> HCL + HOCl
now these equations are not showing the reaction you have with your metals, and as these salts form they can grab your metals with them in the crystals.
Samuel, your smart, tasting is not the best way to test these salts, let us know what you find from testing your white powder.
see if with warm water you still have insolubles.
just for fun
What is that pile of brown stuff that animal left?
if it looks like, smells like and taste's like it well it probably is.
just brown stuff
see if with warm water you still have insolubles.
just for fun
What is that pile of brown stuff that animal left?
if it looks like, smells like and taste's like it well it probably is.
just brown stuff
samuel-a
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lol :mrgreen:
well, as i said, after the HCL+Cl that dissolved only the gold but not the white powder, the white powder did dissolved immediately and completely in cold water.
unfortunately for me... the test tube felled and spilled everything to my sand bucket that is on top of the hotplate.
if that powder will appear again i'll test the way you suggested.
thank you and nice day
SAMUEL
well, as i said, after the HCL+Cl that dissolved only the gold but not the white powder, the white powder did dissolved immediately and completely in cold water.
unfortunately for me... the test tube felled and spilled everything to my sand bucket that is on top of the hotplate.
if that powder will appear again i'll test the way you suggested.
thank you and nice day
SAMUEL
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Looks like butcher may be acquainted with Cheech and Chong. A misspent youth no doubt 
....I can still remember the old LP on the record player.
....I can still remember the old LP on the record player.
