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calgon

updated fri 10 jul 98

 

Fred Paget on thu 9 jul 98

Calgon used to be Sodium hexametaphosphate and now it is something else
with perfume.
You can get the real stuff (Sodium hexametaphosphate) $4.50 per pound from
Dharma Trading Company in San Rafael CA, not far from here: They sell it
for water softner in dyeing cloth. They have a web site
http://www.dharmatrading.com/other_ingredients.html#FIX
Regards,

Fred Paget

>
>Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:01:08 EDT
>From: "Dwiggins, Sandra (NCI)"
>Subject: Another Calgon Question
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hello all--
>I know there was a thread several weeks ago about a substitute for new Calgon
>because there has been a change in the new formula, but I can't find it in the
>archives. By the way, I searched all of them and found that escribe is
>probably
>the easiest to use.
>But no luck in finding what I wanted.
>
>So sorry to ask again, but what is the chemical substitute for Calgon? Is it
>Tri-sodium phosphate?
>Thanks for your help...
>Sandy
>
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From Fred Paget, in marvelous Marin County, California, USA