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Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpos

Coke is used to clean a toilet and not flush it. To clean a toilet, generally some acid or detergent is needed. Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied.

wruza 10y ago
>shows its acidic nature Generally, yes. >and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied (Bio)chemistry is a bit more complicated than that. But anyway, if you have calcium or similar waterproof stalagmites in your intestines, you'd better get rid of those asap.
teekert 10y ago
Still does not mean it is bad for you. Same holds for vinegar (it's acidic). Vinegar is not bad for you, at least when pored over your salad. In fact, only the dose determines the toxicity, it makes no sense to talk about toxicity with out discussing dose (or LD50 value or something.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
- saiya-jin 10y ago
  yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went. or to reverse it - do you know anybody drinking coke in same amounts as usage of vinegar when pouring over salad?
  - aninhumer 10y ago
    But do you need half a litre of vinegar to clean a toilet?
  - teekert 10y ago
    I was addressing the toilet cleaning statement. How much do you need to use for that? But ok, to make break your point I need to provide you with an example of a liquid that cleans the toilet just as well as coke but is healthy while drinking similar amounts. How about lemon juice, diluted to be drinkable without any direct adverse effects on your health and with the same pH as the coke. I'm just guessing but I think it is possible to do that.
  - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
    Most folks couldn't get it down due to the taste. What folks use over a salad is much more paletable - a sweet tasting weak vinegar + oil, and sometimes a touch of sugar. This doesn't make it any better or worse than sodas, simply different. There are many things we eat that aren't something we can do in really large quantities or things that can also have industrial or cleaning purposes. This doesn't make these dangerous, simply multipurpose depending on amount and strength. Hell, you can get very sick by drinking too much water - or get too dehydrated - and can die if you try to breath it. Yet, water is pretty necessary and healthy to have.
  - RankingMember 10y ago
    I actually drank a little more than .5 liter of white vinegar as part of some experimentation with those "miracle fruit" tablets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum). Other than a few minutes of burping, I experienced no ill effects. Edit: Ok, wanted to make a correction after thinking more about that day: My consumed amount was likely around half that. I was consuming various other oddities during this time as well (drinking hot sauce for example) and there couldn't have been room for 16oz of just vinegar. If you've not played around with those tablets, I recommend it even if you get some stomach upset from the things you consume.
    - saiya-jin 10y ago
      wow OK, I stand corrected. I always, wrongly assumed that more than tiny amount would make digestive system go crazy and probably cause vomit or other unpleasant consequences
      - ch4s3 10y ago
        nah, you stomach is already full of a way stronger acid.
      - vkou 10y ago
        To be fair, from my recollection of freshmen challenges, a cup of vinegar, a large raw onion, and a head of garlic is sufficient to either induce vomiting, or to compel the 'winner' to self-induce vomiting.
        RankingMember 10y ago
        The advent of both these kind of challenges as well as Youtube have brought to light a level of durability of the human digestive tract I wouldn't have previously expected. One only needs to watch someone like skippy62able (L.A. Beast) to have their eyes opened (and possibly their gag reflex triggered). For example, witness him consuming baking soda and then drinking a glass of vinegar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke1el2TsDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke1el2TsDs
  - cthalupa 10y ago
    I drink a lot of sour beers. The agent of souring is generally lactobacillus or pediococcus bacteria producing lactic acid. The pH of these is generally around 3, which is a little bit higher than vinegar. I've made some homebrew that is a bit lower - though it ended up being ab it too sour for my personal tastes. There have been plenty of days where I have had more than 2 liters of sour beer - many commercial bottles are sold as 750mL, and sour beers are generally relatively low alcohol %, so it's easily possible to drink plenty of these if you've decided you want to make a day of it. About the only ill effect would be some heartburn. Tums to the rescue
    - kodt 10y ago
      The other ill effect of sour beers is your wallet. Now a new experiment: Will Upland Sours dissolve a nail in 4 days?
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went. And what is that supposed to prove? People regularly drink "half a litre" or 2lt of Coke and report back just fine. The main reason not to drink half a littre of vinegar is its taste and extra acidity. If it had the same acidity as Coke AND better taste it would be fine to drink.
  - hiddenkrypt 10y ago
    Well, since you're asking for anecdotal evidence... Lemon juice has a pH of about 2, while most colas are more Alkaline at around 2.5. My mom eats lemons raw nearly every day. Sometimes limes (pH ~2.2).
Broken_Hippo 10y ago
It can also be used to clean battery terminals among other things. But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I've used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Vegetable oils and waxes are used in industrial applications: Soy can be used as a base for ink and lipstick. Stomach acid itself is about as strong as battery acid, actually. And this is something your body produces and is necessary. Basically: There are a great many chemicals that have multiple uses, and are only dangerous when used in sufficient amounts or on specific surfaces.
- otempomores 10y ago
  It always astonnished me that cellular chemistr ca produce this without selfdestruction.
  - ekianjo 10y ago
    Its not because something is acid that it eats everything just like in Aliens.
- lmm 10y ago
  > But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I've used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Absolutely, but I'd be worried about someone who chugged any of those things in the same quantity peopole tend to drink coke.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    Coke is 89% water (from the other % most is sugar). Not really comparable to consuming 2 cans of salt, baking soda, toothpaste, etc. And would you really be worried for people drinking several cans of lemon juice per day?
shimon_e 10y ago
Forget about coke and water! The real danger is dihydrogen monoxide.
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  Yes! It seems to be in everything, and is even sprayed on the crops!
  - shimon_e 10y ago
    I hear it was found in a new strain of cancer! Scary stuff.
- ekianjo 10y ago
  That stuff is nasty. Too much ingestion and you are done for.
- wruza 10y ago
  Yeah, scientists continue to poison us with there chemicals. Sodium chlorides in our food, vast amounts of nitrogen in the air. Last reports were that in some areas it is more than 75%! Time to stop this madness, let's save our planet!
  - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
    Don't forget that dihydrogen monoxide is a key ingredient in chemtrails...
- beefield 10y ago
  But I heard that it is a very effective dietary supplement for weight loss... Simply swallow 700-800ml of dihydrogen monoxide before every meal and snack you are going to eat and you are all but guaranteed to lose weight (assuming you have problems with weight in the first place)
ekianjo 10y ago
You know your stomach has pH 1 right ?
gravypod 10y ago
Then why not just check PH to prove acidity?
coldtea 10y ago
>Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied. What effectiveness? Who even does that? And from those who do it, who measured the effectiveness compared to plain water?
celticninja 10y ago
Water did the most damage to the nail in the test.

wruza 10y ago

>shows its acidic nature Generally, yes. >and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied (Bio)chemistry is a bit more complicated than that. But anyway, if you have calcium or similar waterproof stalagmites in your intestines, you'd better get rid of those asap.

teekert 10y ago

Still does not mean it is bad for you. Same holds for vinegar (it's acidic). Vinegar is not bad for you, at least when pored over your salad. In fact, only the dose determines the toxicity, it makes no sense to talk about toxicity with out discussing dose (or LD50 value or something.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

saiya-jin 10y ago
yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went. or to reverse it - do you know anybody drinking coke in same amounts as usage of vinegar when pouring over salad?
- aninhumer 10y ago
  But do you need half a litre of vinegar to clean a toilet?
- teekert 10y ago
  I was addressing the toilet cleaning statement. How much do you need to use for that? But ok, to make break your point I need to provide you with an example of a liquid that cleans the toilet just as well as coke but is healthy while drinking similar amounts. How about lemon juice, diluted to be drinkable without any direct adverse effects on your health and with the same pH as the coke. I'm just guessing but I think it is possible to do that.
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  Most folks couldn't get it down due to the taste. What folks use over a salad is much more paletable - a sweet tasting weak vinegar + oil, and sometimes a touch of sugar. This doesn't make it any better or worse than sodas, simply different. There are many things we eat that aren't something we can do in really large quantities or things that can also have industrial or cleaning purposes. This doesn't make these dangerous, simply multipurpose depending on amount and strength. Hell, you can get very sick by drinking too much water - or get too dehydrated - and can die if you try to breath it. Yet, water is pretty necessary and healthy to have.
- RankingMember 10y ago
  I actually drank a little more than .5 liter of white vinegar as part of some experimentation with those "miracle fruit" tablets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum). Other than a few minutes of burping, I experienced no ill effects. Edit: Ok, wanted to make a correction after thinking more about that day: My consumed amount was likely around half that. I was consuming various other oddities during this time as well (drinking hot sauce for example) and there couldn't have been room for 16oz of just vinegar. If you've not played around with those tablets, I recommend it even if you get some stomach upset from the things you consume.
  - saiya-jin 10y ago
    wow OK, I stand corrected. I always, wrongly assumed that more than tiny amount would make digestive system go crazy and probably cause vomit or other unpleasant consequences
    - ch4s3 10y ago
      nah, you stomach is already full of a way stronger acid.
    - vkou 10y ago
      To be fair, from my recollection of freshmen challenges, a cup of vinegar, a large raw onion, and a head of garlic is sufficient to either induce vomiting, or to compel the 'winner' to self-induce vomiting.
      - RankingMember 10y ago
        The advent of both these kind of challenges as well as Youtube have brought to light a level of durability of the human digestive tract I wouldn't have previously expected. One only needs to watch someone like skippy62able (L.A. Beast) to have their eyes opened (and possibly their gag reflex triggered). For example, witness him consuming baking soda and then drinking a glass of vinegar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke1el2TsDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke1el2TsDs
- cthalupa 10y ago
  I drink a lot of sour beers. The agent of souring is generally lactobacillus or pediococcus bacteria producing lactic acid. The pH of these is generally around 3, which is a little bit higher than vinegar. I've made some homebrew that is a bit lower - though it ended up being ab it too sour for my personal tastes. There have been plenty of days where I have had more than 2 liters of sour beer - many commercial bottles are sold as 750mL, and sour beers are generally relatively low alcohol %, so it's easily possible to drink plenty of these if you've decided you want to make a day of it. About the only ill effect would be some heartburn. Tums to the rescue
  - kodt 10y ago
    The other ill effect of sour beers is your wallet. Now a new experiment: Will Upland Sours dissolve a nail in 4 days?
- coldtea 10y ago
  >yeah, please drink half a litre, or even better 2 litre of vinegar and report back to us how that went. And what is that supposed to prove? People regularly drink "half a litre" or 2lt of Coke and report back just fine. The main reason not to drink half a littre of vinegar is its taste and extra acidity. If it had the same acidity as Coke AND better taste it would be fine to drink.
- hiddenkrypt 10y ago
  Well, since you're asking for anecdotal evidence... Lemon juice has a pH of about 2, while most colas are more Alkaline at around 2.5. My mom eats lemons raw nearly every day. Sometimes limes (pH ~2.2).

Broken_Hippo 10y ago

It can also be used to clean battery terminals among other things. But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I've used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Vegetable oils and waxes are used in industrial applications: Soy can be used as a base for ink and lipstick. Stomach acid itself is about as strong as battery acid, actually. And this is something your body produces and is necessary. Basically: There are a great many chemicals that have multiple uses, and are only dangerous when used in sufficient amounts or on specific surfaces.

otempomores 10y ago
It always astonnished me that cellular chemistr ca produce this without selfdestruction.
- ekianjo 10y ago
  Its not because something is acid that it eats everything just like in Aliens.
lmm 10y ago
> But then again, vinegar is a fairly common cleaning agent: Baking soda and salt are fairly effective as well. I've used salt and lemon juice to clean tarnish off of copper: Toothpaste to clean the tarnish off of silver jewelry or shine up gold. None of these are viewed as bad or unhealthy in the doses we tend to consume them in. Absolutely, but I'd be worried about someone who chugged any of those things in the same quantity peopole tend to drink coke.
- coldtea 10y ago
  Coke is 89% water (from the other % most is sugar). Not really comparable to consuming 2 cans of salt, baking soda, toothpaste, etc. And would you really be worried for people drinking several cans of lemon juice per day?

shimon_e 10y ago

Forget about coke and water! The real danger is dihydrogen monoxide.

Broken_Hippo 10y ago
Yes! It seems to be in everything, and is even sprayed on the crops!
- shimon_e 10y ago
  I hear it was found in a new strain of cancer! Scary stuff.
ekianjo 10y ago
That stuff is nasty. Too much ingestion and you are done for.
wruza 10y ago
Yeah, scientists continue to poison us with there chemicals. Sodium chlorides in our food, vast amounts of nitrogen in the air. Last reports were that in some areas it is more than 75%! Time to stop this madness, let's save our planet!
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  Don't forget that dihydrogen monoxide is a key ingredient in chemtrails...
beefield 10y ago
But I heard that it is a very effective dietary supplement for weight loss... Simply swallow 700-800ml of dihydrogen monoxide before every meal and snack you are going to eat and you are all but guaranteed to lose weight (assuming you have problems with weight in the first place)

ekianjo 10y ago

You know your stomach has pH 1 right ?

gravypod 10y ago

Then why not just check PH to prove acidity?

coldtea 10y ago

>Effectiveness of Coke being used for this purpose shows its acidic nature and its ability to dissolve the material on which it is applied. What effectiveness? Who even does that? And from those who do it, who measured the effectiveness compared to plain water?

celticninja 10y ago

Water did the most damage to the nail in the test.