[sdiy] Messy workshop and Into the future (was Old Age and Synth-DIYers)

[Ian Fritz]

At 06:15 AM 6/8/2004, Scott Bernardi wrote:
>OK, so the obvious next question: how do you nuetralize it?
>It's been a loooong time since my college chemistry class.
>
>Ian Fritz wrote:
>
>>At 04:16 PM 6/7/2004, harrybissell wrote:
>>
>>>Scott Bernardi wrote:   <snip>
>>>
>>> > Any body know what they charge in the US to dump ammonium persulfate?
>>> >
>>>
>>>you mean like... legally ???    :^P
>>>
>>>H^) harry    (oopsie - toxic waste spill :^)
>>
>>
>>Some people neutralize it then use it for mixing their quickrete 
>>projects.  Legal?  Hmmm... Dunno.

I really don't know. Ferric chloride is an acid, so you can neuteralize it 
with baking soda, as I remember.  Any chemistry geniuses that know this  one?