On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Nicol wrote:
> Just what is the active ingredient in oven cleaner anyway? It seems as
> if quite a few of us use the stuff for things other than cleaning the
> oven. How nasty is it?
>
> John Nicol
> Ewing, NJ
> '74 Datsun 240Z w/ small block chevy power
>
I'm not sure; in some of the cleaners I think it's NaOH (caustic soda, or
sodium hydroxide). Whatever it is, many if not all of the cleaners will
eat aluminum.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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