If you wait long enough, water will dissolve a nail.
Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
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Re: Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
#102"To illustrate that, the email points out that Coke can be used to clean a toilet, help remove a rusty bolt, or remove blood from a highway accident." Yeah well why would anybody believe that if a soda can be used in such ways that it is also bad for you? I mean I flush the toilet with water! With WATER! And it removes most traces of excrement... Arg, it must be bad for you!
Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.
Water did the most damage to the nail in the test.
Re: Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
That likely had more to do with the sugar than the acid in the juice.
I'd been drinking apple juice in similar quantities before and since for years (when I say "started" I really mean I switched from apple to orange), which I believe has similar sugar content.
Don't know about your teeth, but that sugar is pushing for diabetes. Drinking juice straight (not diluted with water) at 100+ kCal/cup rate, in quantity, is a bad idea
Re: Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd been drinking apple juice in similar quantities before and since for years (when I say "started" I really mean I switched from apple to orange), which I believe has similar sugar content.
Don't know about your teeth, but that sugar is pushing for diabetes. Drinking juice straight (not diluted with water) at 100+ kCal/cup rate, in quantity, is a bad idea
Yeah, this is a few years back now; I spoke to a nutritionist last year for the first time in my life and that was the first thing she told me to cut (and I have).
Re: Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually drank a little more than .5 liter of white vinegar as part of some experimentation with those "miracle fruit" tablets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum ). Other than a few minutes of burping, I experienced no ill effects. Edit: Ok, wanted to make a correction after thinking more about that day: My consumed amount was likely around half that. I was consuming various other oddities during…
wow OK, I stand corrected. I always, wrongly assumed that more than tiny amount would make digestive system go crazy and probably cause vomit or other unpleasant consequences
Vinegar has nothing on the natural stomach acid already present in your digestive system. People don't give enough credit to how resilient the human body actually is.