Re: Electrolysis question

[DLancer7676@cs.com]

In a message dated 3/24/05 7:50:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Tommy_Samuels@MARKIVAUTO.COM writes: 
> But washing soda or baking soda are both caustic solutions because they are 
> bases. 

Yes they are bases but all bases are not caustic.  Caustic means capable of 
destroying or eating away by chemical action :  Corrosive.  They are capable of 
destroying acids by neutralizing them, but in this case and use they are 
simply electrolytes, with no effect that I am aware of on the metal itself.  
The 
electrical charge that they carry is the agent that eats away the rust.

--David C.

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