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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1763111, member: 27832"]DON'T DO THIS. The mixture will release chlorine gas over time, and it will trash your coins. It's a terrible, terrible idea -- it's dangerous to you, your family, and your coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always thought of hydrochloric (muriatic) acid as the safest of the "big three" mineral acids (the other two are nitric and sulfuric). But I just trashed a kitchen counter thanks to a spill that I didn't even notice at the time. Coingeek12, how do you think your parents will feel if an accident like that happens?</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll try to find the thread where someone tried adding salt to a vinegar soak for nickels. Let's just say that the results were NOT pretty -- and that mix would be far, far less aggressive than an HCl-H2O2 mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe BadThad will chime in if I'm terribly off-base here, but this sounds like a disaster in the making.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1763111, member: 27832"]DON'T DO THIS. The mixture will release chlorine gas over time, and it will trash your coins. It's a terrible, terrible idea -- it's dangerous to you, your family, and your coins. I always thought of hydrochloric (muriatic) acid as the safest of the "big three" mineral acids (the other two are nitric and sulfuric). But I just trashed a kitchen counter thanks to a spill that I didn't even notice at the time. Coingeek12, how do you think your parents will feel if an accident like that happens? I'll try to find the thread where someone tried adding salt to a vinegar soak for nickels. Let's just say that the results were NOT pretty -- and that mix would be far, far less aggressive than an HCl-H2O2 mix. Maybe BadThad will chime in if I'm terribly off-base here, but this sounds like a disaster in the making.[/QUOTE]
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