I seem to remember someone in this group one time recommending
using acid to improve the soil for growing potatoes. Can anyone
provide details on the procedure? Or perhaps it was a joke. In any
case I have between 3 and 4 gallons of battery acid I'd like to be
rid of. I have googled
Does your community have some sort of hazardous materials disposal arrangement,
like someplace you can take it and drop it off to be properly disposed of?
Or - do you know any shops that might want it? We used to keep dry batteries
in storage and add acid as we needed them.
I shudder to think
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:26 PM, David Kristin Gilmore
dandkgilm...@frontier.com wrote:
I have the box sitting up on a dry shelf in the equipment shed. I
have never before needed battery acid and I don't anticipate needing it
again. I don't want it to leak as the result of accident.
On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:26 PM, David Kristin Gilmore
dandkgilm...@frontier.com wrote:
I seem to remember someone in this group one time recommending using
acid to improve the soil for growing potatoes. Can anyone provide
details on the procedure? Or perhaps it was a joke. In any case
Contact your local chemistry teacher to explain how to do an Acid/Base mix
to neutralize the acid for safe disposal. Sulfuric acid is a strong acid,
however baking soda in the right proportion will render the PH to neutral.
Use all the proper safety equipment and precautions in doing this of
G Mann wrote:
Contact your local chemistry teacher to explain how to do an Acid/Base mix
to neutralize the acid for safe disposal. Sulfuric acid is a strong acid,
however baking soda in the right proportion will render the PH to neutral.
When I was in high school, the chemistry lab had its
Use it to do an acid wash or concrete that is dirty. Like in a swimming pool.
Mist it on, scrub, hose off with lots of water so it dilutes.
pour it into a swimming pool that is too alkali. Drops pH very well and
dilutes in the water.
Run it through the church coffee makers and remove the
David [or] Kristin Gilmore wrote:
I seem to remember someone in this group one time
recommending using acid to improve the soil for growing
potatoes.
_Sweet_ potatoes and blueberries are both plants that prefer
acidic soil. But adding battery acid is _NOT_ the way to
achieve it!
An extra word of caution in handling sodium hydroxide in powder form.
Contact with mucous membrane, such as eyelids or mouth, or ingestion into
the lungs can and will do great physical harm, Possible harm which can not
be recovered from, for example if it is breathed into the lung. It reacts
solution they get as toilet cleaner...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:26:12 -0500
From: David Kristin Gilmore dandkgilm...@frontier.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] OT - What to do with leftover battery acid?
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