XPost: sci.electronics.repair   
   From: jeroen@nospam.please   
      
   On 11/02/18 23:38, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
   > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:35:43 -0800, Jeff Liebermann    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> The white stuff that leaks out of carbon zinc battery is the zinc   
   >> chloride electrolyte:   
   >   
   > Oops.  Zinc chloride is the crud that leaks out of the battery.  The   
   > electrolyte is ammonium chloride.   
   >   
      
   Zinc chloride actually attracts so much water that it dissolves in it,   
   as I found out when I tried to crystallize the stuff.   
      
   Jeroen Belleman   
      
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