Navy used to use it on bright work.
Nice shine.. worked great..
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] Brominated Hydrocarbons and Mountain Dew (NTC-sort of)
> Coke as a rust-reducer, huh? Never thought of sharing a coke with my old
> cars!
>
> Peter
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> "Gaugler, Kevin" <[log in to unmask]> 30/04/2003 12:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TN] Brominated Hydrocarbons and Mountain Dew
(NTC-sort of)
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> Hi Mike,
>
> Brominated vegetable oil is used as an emulsifying agent. As far as I
> know, you can't use it in the EU or in Canada because it is believed to be
> a carcinogen. Man, I know now that I am sticking with Coke (not quite as
> much caffeine, but it's got Phosphoric acid!)
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Gaugler
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mcmaster, Michael [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Brominated Hydrocarbons and Mountain Dew (NTC-sort of)
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> This posting has no relevance to circuit boards or assemblies, but
> given the amount of discussion on this forum on the drive to
> eliminate brominated flame retardants in PWB materials and the
> fondness of some regulars for the Dew, I think it's relevant.
>
>
> The other day, I noticed one of my co-workers drinking a liquid that
> was unnaturally bright red. I queried him on exactly what this
> liquid was. He replied Mountain Dew Code Red. This led to a
> discussion of what exactly was Code Red. A scan of the ingredients
> revealed the expected red dye but surprisingly, it also contained
> brominated vegetable oil. I immediately asked why the makers of
this
> product felt it necessary to add an apparent flame retardant to
their
> product. My co-worker (incidentally a chemist who really should no
> better but claims that he somehow manages to compartmentalize all
> this stuff) had no idea.
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>
> I just thought this whole thing is very ironic. Most of us work in
> an industry that is spending millions of dollars trying to remove
> bromine from one of the constituents while at the same time you have
> a "food" product to which intentionally is added a brominated
> hydrocarbon. Does anybody know what purpose the brominated vegetable
> oil serves? It also turns out the some component is in regular Dew
as
> well as diet red dew but not diet regular Dew.
>
>
> Now back to our regularly scheduled programming....
> Mike McMaster
> RF Product Engineer
> Merix Corporation
> 503-992-4263
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