Posted by Jock on August 26, 2006 at 22:35:16 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Let's hear it for acid ! posted by Lyn on August 26, 2006 at 20:26:58:
some TarBoard members have been here long enough -- and know each other well enough -- that they can be deliberately caustic
Joe is accusing some of us of posting messages that are acidic (pH lower than 7, but greater than 0), rather than caustic (pH much greater than 7, but no higher than 14).
Bases we could probably live without. But without acids we would not be alive. All the second items in the pairs that I listed in my post 24420 are acidic!