<story><title>Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)</title><url>https://joshmadison.com/will-coke-dissolve-a-nail-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pheonikai</author><text>Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>&amp;quot;To illustrate that, the email points out that Coke can be used to clean a toilet, help remove a rusty bolt, or remove blood from a highway accident.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yeah well why would anybody believe that if a soda can be used in such ways that it is also bad for you? I mean I flush the toilet with water! With WATER! And it removes most traces of excrement... Arg, it must be bad for you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>It can also be used to clean battery terminals among other things.&lt;p&gt;But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I&amp;#x27;ve used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Vegetable oils and waxes are used in industrial applications: Soy can be used as a base for ink and lipstick.&lt;p&gt;Stomach acid itself is about as strong as battery acid, actually. And this is something your body produces and is necessary.&lt;p&gt;Basically: There are a great many chemicals that have multiple uses, and are only dangerous when used in sufficient amounts or on specific surfaces.</text></comment>
<story><title>Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)</title><url>https://joshmadison.com/will-coke-dissolve-a-nail-experiment/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pheonikai</author><text>Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.</text></item><item><author>teekert</author><text>&amp;quot;To illustrate that, the email points out that Coke can be used to clean a toilet, help remove a rusty bolt, or remove blood from a highway accident.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yeah well why would anybody believe that if a soda can be used in such ways that it is also bad for you? I mean I flush the toilet with water! With WATER! And it removes most traces of excrement... Arg, it must be bad for you!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>teekert</author><text>Still does not mean it is bad for you. Same holds for vinegar (it&amp;#x27;s acidic). Vinegar is not bad for you, at least when pored over your salad. In fact, only the dose determines the toxicity, it makes no sense to talk about toxicity with out discussing dose (or LD50 value or something.)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_dose_makes_the_poison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_dose_makes_the_poison&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>