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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware: Recipe for disaster?
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:25:07 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <sbarnhar-171192153648@morril6t-19.micro.umn.edu> <1992Nov19.182709.7200@mlb.semi.harris.com>,<BxzDJ6.37E@encore.com>
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- In article <BxzDJ6.37E@encore.com>, bseymour@encore.com (Burch Seymour) writes:
- >Sorry, you lose. Well according to a former net-expert anyway. A few years
- >ago there was a frequent poster to sci.med (Craig Werner) who was a med
- >student at Albert Einstein in NY. His contention was that you get more
- >aluminum from glassware that from pots, as the aluminum oxide goes
- >into solution easier than the metalic state.
-
- Hmmm. Interesting argument. But I've got a question. Have you ever looked at
- a piece of aluminum that's exposted to the atmosphere for an extended period of
- time? Notice how it's got this aluminum oxide layer on it? Now look at the
- inside of an aluminum pot. Nice and shiny.
-
- Now: Where did the aluminum oxide you'd've expected to see on the inside of
- the pot go?
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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