On May 6, 10:56, Hank Hays wrote: } Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Dry Suit Field Test > Dave Kruger wrote: > >Silicone can ruin latex; ditto Armorall and similar. (Silicon is the stuff > >in transistors and integrated circuits -- hard, brittle, grey, shiny.) > > Gee, Dave, if I remember my chemistry right, silicon is a major component > in beach sand and in dirt. Will those hurt my drysuit gaskets? Do I need > to take a chair along on trips (or another such protective "filtering > device") so I don't sit directly in the sand? Silicon is not the same thing as silicone. And in any case elements like silicon are chemically much different from compounds like silicone. Oxygen is a major component of water. Doesn't mean you can breathe water. There's a lot of chlorine (in the form of chloride ions) in salt water like seawater. But seawater doesn't kill almost everything living like chlorine bleach does. -- Bob Myers InteleNet Communications, Inc. Email: bob_at_InteleNet.net 18101 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 550 Phone: 949-851-8250 x227 Irvine, CA 92612 Fax: 949-851-1088 http://www.intelenet.net/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 06 1999 - 12:39:21 PDT
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