[Sca-cooks] Re: dissolved pearls

[Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au]

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