Re: Prolong Truth

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

Actually, guys, chlorine is a gas at ordinary temperatures and pressures.
It doesn't feel slippery (it also doesn't feel good, either - noxious stuff
- don't breathe it).  Clorox (or other chlorine bleach) is where the
average person is most likely to come into contact with chlorine.  Clorox
is chlorine gas dissolved in NaOH (lye) solution.  The OH- of the solution
reacts with the fats and oils in your skin to form soap.  (Like Granny's
lye soap.)  The soap is what feels slippery.  The solution would feel
slippery even if there were no chlorine present.

At 12:43 PM 6/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>To the best of my chemical knolwedge, Cl is a lubricant and slippery or not
>when touch by those protoplasmic fingers.  
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>Shayne
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>>> I would never put this stuff in my cars.  It may be great for racers
who do
>>> rebuilds often, but it will eat up your motor.  It contains high levels of
>>> Chlorine.  We all know chlorine is slippery
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>>I thought chlorine felt slippery (at least the dissolved in water type,
>>not the green gas) because of the skin cells bursting their little
>>protoplasmic contents... was I looking out the window that far off day
>>in Chemistry?
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>>-- 
>>Huw Powell
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>>http://www.thebook.com/human-speakers/audi-main.htm
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   Bob
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