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So I have been using Muriatic acid instead of vinegar lately, being very safe and all; but I always neutralize it before sending it down my 50 year old plumbing system. But I ran out of my go to neutralizer Sodium BiCarbonate and had some Kalkwasser lying around. Thinking I was spiff for using something I wasn't going to use any time soon, I tried it and got zero reaction... I know bleach + muriatic acid can produce dangerous vapors, but I figured kalkwasser being CAOH would produce CO2? I'm stumped that I didn't get anything, or maybe I didn't put as much acid in as I thought?
Can someone point me in the direction of safe/unsafe neutralizing bases for muriatic acid? Preferably products that we'll all have lying around anyways, i.e. sodium carbonate/bicarbonate kalkwasser etc...? Thanks!
Can someone point me in the direction of safe/unsafe neutralizing bases for muriatic acid? Preferably products that we'll all have lying around anyways, i.e. sodium carbonate/bicarbonate kalkwasser etc...? Thanks!