The Most Worthless Thread on Canreef

[Doug]

Originally Posted by justinl

time for a lil science boys and girls!

what is pH (i hope you know this already)? It is the "partial Hydrogen" in a solution. That means that protons aka Hydrogen ions (H+) occupying a volume of liquid. So where does H+ come from? well there are two kinds of chemicals called acids (pH less than 7) and bases (pH greater than 7). pH is different from a "concentration" (like ppm) in that it's a logarithmic function... it's backwards! so a pH of 1 is satrated with H+ and a pH of 14 (max pH) is very very low in H+. every increment of 1 is an increase tenfold in H+.

Take muriatic acid for example: HCl. when in an aqueous solution (contains water) the HCl partially breaks apart into its ions H+ and Cl-. and pH is the measure of how much H+ is in that solution. Water itself also contributes to pH, hence the neutral pH of 7.

Bases are the H+ deficient form of their acidic cousins. basically they steal H+ from the solution and therefore raise te pH.

fun times! now where was i? oh yeah, if a solution's pH is below 7 it's considered acidic. if it's at 7 its called neutral. if it's above 7 then it's called basic aka alkaline. so to answer your question, there's no such thing as an "alkaline acid". that my friend is an oxymoron!

so about caustic soda. well from a chemistry point of view that makes no sense! if anything caustic soda should drop the pH of mud (which is usually around 7 give or take a bit)

that was a fun rant.

Hey, thats to serious for this dumb thread. Be careful. No serious postings in a stupid thread or it will be deleted.

[Paverdude]

you'd have to be a complete nut-case to post on this thread, so i won't

[andsoitgoes]

Originally Posted by Doug

Hey, thats to serious for this dumb thread. Be careful. No serious postings in a stupid thread or it will be deleted.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[andestang]

Wow, must add one myself

[Joe Reefer]

Can fat people go skinny dipping?

[christyf5]

Nice thread name change

Although it has garnered a bit of info. We all now know what caustic soda is and how it works, we know what drilling mud is, and we know that people on canreef like to boost their numbers with useless posts

[justinl]

hahaha i love the title change!

im currently eating a pizza pop. yum.

[andsoitgoes]

I think it should be changed to:

"It's the thread that never ends, it goes on and on my friend! Some people TRIED deleting it not knowing what it was, and now they'll continue posting in it forever just because..... "

might be a bit long

[Delphinus]

I just had a donair.

[demon666]

chocolate covered almonds here