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Originally Posted by jimbutt Remember your chemistry folks: like dissolves like. PB is a good base (not bass) to go with the strong basic (as opposed to acidic) quality of sap. |
So if like dissolves like I can put this thread in a toilet, flush, and it will go away? Now that would be chemistry worth remembering!
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Originally Posted by bassphase  So if it's just an acid/base thing you may as well use a bottle of Maalox to clean your strings. You could keep a bottle in your bass bag for those gigs that cause indigestion too  bob |
Acid bass;- Oh yeah, that's like Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida baby? By now that's probably ferrous or ferric oxide button fly? In-A-Bottle-Of-Vitamins? I don't know if I'm remembering or flashing back ....
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Real chemistry: Pine rosin or tar is mildly acidic. It is also a fat. If you add it to a base like sodium hydroxide, you will get sodium stearate;- soap. (Grandpa's pine tar type). Peanut Butter probably has no basic or acidic quality worth mentioning. If there is anything in it that dissolves rosin, that would be the oil, which would do a much better job used in it's pure form as peanut oil. But then you would need some soap to cut the oil, or you could just add a little lye to the oil and it would become soap. Peanut oil is also a fat. And it would dissolve rosin (not very well though) because it is an organic compound (non-polar). The salt and water in PB would make it a mixture of polar and nonpolar compounds because the salt will dissolve to some extent into polar ions of sodiuum and chloride.
