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black waxy glaze p.s.

updated sat 26 may 01

 

John Hesselberth on fri 25 may 01


I need to make one additional point on my last post. I hit the send key too
quickly.

While I often remind people we are not in the food supplement business, just
as I believe water standards are useful reference points so do I think
vitamin pills and minimum daily requirements are another useful reference
point. In most any multivitamin you pick up you will find 2.0 -2.5
milligrams of a manganese compound--manganese sulfate in mine. You would
have to drink more than 2 gallons of vinegar that had been stored in jugs
glazed with Waxy Black to get as much manganese as you get in one vitamin
pill. If it were water or milk or coffee it would probably be close to a
hundred gallons. You'd have to be pretty thirsty to get much manganese that
way

As I said, this is a very stable glaze.

Regards,

John

on 5/25/01 7:04 PM, Lesley Alexander at celadon@SILCOM.COM wrote:

Some have argued here
> that drinking water standards are too stringent. But even if one mixed
> up that glaze and got equally 'good' results in a test, would we really
> want to give such a pot to a family with young children? Who might store
> food in it.....??? Perhaps this is an unanswerable question at this
> point in our knowledge.

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