[Sca-cooks] Re: dissolved pearls
Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au
Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au
Sun May 25 19:07:50 PDT 2003
I have been doing a wee bit of quick searching on the whole pearls in wine thang.
The following link is to an interesting page which points out that household vinegar dissolves pearls better than pure acetic acid. .
http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/jonesp.html
and this one actually goes briefly into the science of it...
http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/cabanel.html
It seems that good wine won't do the job, but bad wine will! ;)
Kiriel
More links on this:
http://www.mun.ca/sgs/science/nov2483.html
http://146.139.100.40/webpages/askasci/chem00/chem00595.htm
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