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zinc as flux: pedant corrected

updated sun 27 may 12

 

Lili Krakowski on sat 26 may 12


Just got e-mail from Glaze Super Guru with recipe with 13% ZnO as FLUX. =
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Asks where no-more-than-2% comes from.
Red-faced reply: From THE BOOKS!

My lame excuse is that I do not use ZnO much, if at all, as it "bothers" =
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chrome, which (in stains) I use in decoration.

As two much written up recent lab accidents demonstrated --as did a =3D
story my father told of school chemistry lab explosion in his 19th =3D
Century! Gymnasium day--do not believe all you read, and then check it =3D
out!



Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage