> Torin Walker wrote:
>
> Home depot sells muriatic acid. It's
> (nearly) as common as road salt.
Sorry for being a late entry here. I know
this argument has been done to death. I
know your probably all sick of it.
HOWEVER.
In OZ no one sells muriatic acid.
Hardware stores and Pool shops all sell
Hydrochloric acid. If you ask a concreter
or pool cleaner about muruatic acid he
will look at you funny.
We also don't have lye or soda ash for
sale here. About the only name people
have mentioned that are still sold under
old world names is Backing Soda (which
still has "Sodium Bicarbonate" on the
box as well.
NB - We don't have things called Sodium
Carbonate or Sodium Hydroxide for sale on
the shelves either. They all have brand
names like "miracle burn" or "chemiclean"
but the ingredients list has the real
names.