XPost: sci.electronics.repair   
   From: jeroen@nospam.please   
      
   Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
   > On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:31:54 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > What were you trying to make?  Soldering flux (usually a mix of zinc   
   > chloride and hydrochloric acid)?  Don't use it on electronics as it's   
   > conductive.   
   >   
      
   Nah! Just part of a high school chemistry course 45 years ago.   
      
   Jeroen Belleman   
      
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