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<BR>1.In many states the highway
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patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to
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remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
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<P>2.You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and
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it will be gone in two days.
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<P>3.To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into
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the toilet <NOBR>bowl . . .</NOBR> Let the "real
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thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean.
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<P>4.The citric acid in Coke removes stains from
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vitreous china.
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<P>5.To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub
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the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap
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aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
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<P>6.To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
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Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble
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away the corrosion.
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<P>7.To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked
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in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
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<P>8.To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola
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into the baking pan;rap the ham in aluminum foil, and
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bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished,
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remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with
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the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
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<P>9.To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of
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coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, And
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run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help
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loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze
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fromyour windshield.
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<P>FYI:
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<P>1.The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
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It's pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4
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days.
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<P>2.To carry Coca Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
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commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place
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cards reserved for Highly Corrosive materials.
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<P>3.The distributors of coke have been using it to
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clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
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Drink up! No joke. Think what coke and other soft
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drinks do to your teeth on a daily basis. A tooth will
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dissolve in a cup of coke in 24-48 hours
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</P>
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Many of the
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entries above are just simple household tips involving
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Coca-Cola. That you can cook and clean with Coke is relatively
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meaningless from a safety standpoint <NOBR>--</NOBR> you can
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use a wide array of common household substances (including
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water) for the same purposes; that doesn't necessarily make
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them dangerous. The fact is that <I>all</I> carbonated soft
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drinks contain <A
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onmouseover="window.status='Carbonic acid';return true"
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onclick='this.href="#origins";window.open("http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/carbonic.html", "carbonic", "scrollbar=yes,menubar=yes,resizable=yes")'
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onmouseout="window.status='';return true"
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href="http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/carbonic.html"><FONT
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face=Arial color=#cc0000>carbonic acid</FONT></A>, which is
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moderately useful for tasks such as removing stains and
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dissolving rust deposits (although plain soda water is much
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better for such purposes than Coca-Cola or other soft drinks,
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as it doesn't leave a sticky sugar residue behind). Carbonic
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acid is relatively weak, however, and people have been
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drinking carbonated water for many years with no detrimental
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effects.
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<P><A name=acid></A>The rest of the claims offered here are,
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in a word, stupid. Coca-Cola does contain small amounts of
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citric acid (from the orange, lemon, and lime oils in its
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formula) and phosphoric acid. However, all the insinuations
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about the dangers these acids might pose to people who drink
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Coca-Cola ignore a simple concept familiar to any first-year
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chemistry student: concentration. Coca-Cola contains less
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citric acid than orange juice does, and the concentration of
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phosphoric acid in Coke is far too small (a mere 11 to 13
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grams per gallon of syrup, or about 0.20 to 0.30 per cent of
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the total formula) to harm anyone, no matter how much Coke he
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guzzles. The only people who proffer the ridiculous statements
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that Coca-Cola will dissolve a steak, a <A
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onmouseover="window.status='Tooth in Advertising';return true"
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onclick='this.href="#acid";window.open("tooth.htm")'
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onmouseout="window.status='';return true"
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href="http://www.snopes2.com/cokelore/tooth.htm"><FONT
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color=#cc0000>tooth</FONT></A>, or a nail in a matter of days
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are people who have never actually tried any of these things,
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because they just don't happen. (Anyone who conducts these
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experiments will find himself at the end of two days with a
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whole tooth, a whole nail, and one very soggy t-bone.)
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<P>The next time you're stopped by a highway patrolman, try
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asking him if he's ever cleaned blood stains off a highway
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with Coca-Cola. If you're lucky, by the time he stops laughing
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he'll have forgotten about the citation he was going to give
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you.
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<P><FONT face=Arial color=#cc0000><B>Last updated:</B></FONT>
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20 November 2001. </P></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P>
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<CENTER><FONT face=Verdana,Arial color=#cc0000 size=2>The URL for
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this page is http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.htm
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<P>Urban Legends Reference Pages <20> 1995-2001 <BR>by Barbara and
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David P. Mikkelson <BR>This material may not be reproduced without
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permisson </FONT></CENTER>
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