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<BR>1.In many states the highway
patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to
remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
<P>2.You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and
it will be gone in two days.
<P>3.To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into
the toilet <NOBR>bowl . . .</NOBR> Let the "real
thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.
<P>4.The citric acid in Coke removes stains from
vitreous china.
<P>5.To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub
the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap
aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
<P>6.To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble
away the corrosion.
<P>7.To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked
in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
<P>8.To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola
into the baking pan;rap the ham in aluminum foil, and
bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished,
remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with
the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
<P>9.To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of
coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And
run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help
loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze
fromyour windshield.
<P>FYI:
<P>1.The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4
days.
<P>2.To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place
cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials.
<P>3.The distributors of coke have been using it to
clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft
drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will
dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours
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Many of the
entries above are just simple household tips involving
Coca-Cola. That you can cook and clean with Coke is relatively
meaningless from a safety standpoint <NOBR>--</NOBR> you can
use a wide array of common household substances (including
water) for the same purposes; that doesn't necessarily make
them dangerous. The fact is that <I>all</I> carbonated soft
drinks contain <A
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href="http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/carbonic.html"><FONT
face=Arial color=#cc0000>carbonic acid</FONT></A>, which is
moderately useful for tasks such as removing stains and
dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much
better for such purposes than Coca-Cola or other soft drinks,
as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue behind). Carbonic
acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been
drinking carbonated water for many years with no detrimental
effects.
<P><A name=acid></A>The rest of the claims offered here are,
in a word, stupid. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of
citric acid (from the orange, lemon, and lime oils in its
formula) and phosphoric acid. However, all the insinuations
about the dangers these acids might pose to people who drink
Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year
chemistry student: concentration. Coca-Cola contains less
citric acid than orange juice does, and the concentration of
phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13
grams per gallon of syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of
the total formula) to harm anyone, no matter how much Coke he
guzzles. The only people who proffer the ridiculous statements
that Coca-Cola will dissolve a steak, a <A
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color=#cc0000>tooth</FONT></A>, or a nail in a matter of days
are people who have never actually tried any of these things,
because they just don't happen. (Anyone who conducts these
experiments will find himself at the end of two days with a
whole tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)
<P>The next time you're stopped by a highway patrolman, try
asking him if he's ever cleaned blood stains off a highway
with Coca-Cola. If you're lucky, by the time he stops laughing
he'll have forgotten about the citation he was going to give
you.
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#cc0000><B>Last updated:</B></FONT>
20 November 2001. </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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