[Rockhounds] muriatic acid for cleaning...

[Alan Goldstein]

Wow! That sounds dangerous! TOTAL beginners and muriatic acid sounds like 
trouble.

What are "raw rocks?" Are they rocks that haven't been cooked yet? I can 
provide tips for cleaning calcite-filled geodes, but I'll be darned if I'm 
going to provide advice without any knowledge of what is going on. People 
have been sued for less!

Alan


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From: "Frederick Olmstead" <folmstead at rcn.com>
To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: [Rockhounds] muriatic acid for cleaning...


> HELLO
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> I received this email from a club member and I am passing it along to the 
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>> Hello....
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>> I received this message from Cynthia XXXX
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>> Please forward to 'all' -
>>  We are TOTAL beginners... have purchased Muriatic Acid for cleaning our 
>> new finds 'in the raw' and need basic guidance on how to use with raw 
>> rocks.
>> Should we stir or ok to leave as is, apx. how long based on general 
>> volume of rocks (just a few for first batch), etc.
>>  If you can, please call ......
>>  Greatly appreciated!
>>  Cynthia
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>> If you can help, please contact her.
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>> Cheerio,  Wxxxxl
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