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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2699931, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;ll certainly defer to [USER=17261]@BadThad[/USER], but I&#039;m pretty confident that acetic acid is more than ionized enough, and salt&#039;s completely ionized, so you&#039;re going to have chloride ions and protons (actually hydronium ions) -- so it&#039;s at least the <i>moral</i> equivalent of hydrochloric acid. Dilute, as you say, but dilute HCl is still destructive, because that chloride ion <i>loves</i> to make off with metal ions. (That&#039;s what makes it more destructive than other acids, even when it&#039;s dilute; it&#039;s also why aqua regia attacks gold and platinum. The nitric acid oxidizes, the chloride complexes and carries away.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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