Lawmaker wants baking soda to be sold behind counter

KMOV-TV ^ | April 5, 2007 | staff reporter

[PissAndVinegar]

Adjusts pH, Alkalinity and I think the hardness.

For optimal conditions (and to prevent damage to your equiptment, liner, etc) you play a chemical juggling act with pools. We have to mess with ours the first few weeks then it balances out.

[spunkets]

THanks. I asked, because usually the chlorinatiing agent raises the pH. Bicarb would be good to correct for an over compensation after an acid(HCL) is added to lower it. Hardness would be from calcium from a chlorinating agent, if the water wasn’t real hard to begin with. Alkalinity is related to hardness if there’s any Ca and Mg. That needs to be taken out, or tied up with some complexing agent, like a polyamine.

[spunkets]

Thanks. I stuck a reply at #62 and should have pinged you.

[lepton]

I suggest that Ice be sold behind the counter, it is often used in cooling bongs. and Pens too as those can be fashioned into Cocaine snorting tubes... and and

And as most of us know, ice comes from water...which is also made of hydrogen and oxygen.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’d much prefer limiting the availability of rodent liberals. Ship ‘em all off to the Galapagos where they can reenact “The Lord of the Flies.”

[tazman3]

It’s a PH and hardness adjuster. I use the 50 pound bags from the pool store. It’s cheaper than soda ash and a couple of other chemicals that do the same thing.

OH NO! Now I did it. He’s gonna add pool supply stores to the list.

[zeugma]

I pray that they pass this. The sooner we all just start laughing at their stupid laws, rather than obeying them, they finally start losing their power.

[zeugma]

True, and yet many of the WODers right here on FR fully supported that bit if absurdity. I wonder if they'll support this as well.

They may not post it on this thread, but you can believe there are many on this board who would support even this as long it has an official "WoD" label on it. 

[The Great RJ]

All this will do is open new sources. The crack down on cold pills has significantly reduced the backyard meth labs, but now meth is just being smuggled in by the ton from Mexico where it is made in large factories

[caseinpoint]

“Unfortunately, nobody works at that Ford plant anymore. It was shut down.”

Sorry to hear that. What killed it? NAFTA, UAW, environmental whackos, Toyota, or a combination of the above?

[Daffynition]

You got that right!

Since this was posted, I became curious about the Arm and Hammer connection with baking soda.

Church & Dwight Company, Inc. has an interesting history:

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. and here:

Armand Products Joint Venture

Armand Products Company is a joint venture formed in 1986 between Church & Dwight Company, Inc. and Occidental Chemical Corporation (OxyChem). Our corporate headquarters are located in Princeton, New Jersey.

We're the world's largest producer of Potassium Carbonate and only U.S. producer of Potassium Bicarbonate.

We operate two ISO 9002 certified, modern production facilities located at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. With a total of four reactors, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, Armand Products offers unsurpassed production capacity for assured supply. We produce 4 times the capacity of any other U.S. Supplier; 100,000 tons/year of potassium carbonate and 5,000 tons/year of potassium bicarbonate.

Armand Products is the only producer with dedicated production of potassium hydroxide, the key raw material for potassium carbonate.

The origin of the trademark

In 1867, when James A. Church joined his father as a member of Church & Co., he brought along with him the ARM & HAMMER trademark that, up until then, had been used to label the mustard produced at his VULCAN SPICE MILLS.

In Roman mythology, Vulcan was the god of fire, especially skilled in fashioning ornaments and arms for the gods. Thus, the arm of Vulcan with hammer in hand about to descend upon an anvil. Since that time, the ARM & HAMMER trademark has become one of the most recognized in the land, a symbol of integrity and a guarantee of quality in the best tradition of the founders.

Apparently 100 tons of baking soda was used to clean the Statue of Liberty's inner copper walls during its 1986 restoration.