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How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:01:04 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online I dug this one, and I actually forgot about it until a few weeks ago. I had it sitting in muriatic acid for over a month to try to dissolve the contents. Originally, it was sort of a white powder that was caked on the inside of the bottle. I couldn't get it out with a brush or anything. But after I took it out of the acid, the inside was covered in an almost icelike crystal coating. With vigorous shaking of copper, I dislodged a bit of it, and it came out in flakes, like sheets of ice. The stuff is very stubbornly stuck to the inside of the glass. Could it have been a reaction with the acid that caused this? And how do I get rid of this annoyance? The bottle is a medicine bottle, so there could've been any sort of prescription in it. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. Post #: 1

RE: How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:08:22 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12308 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Looks like if you let it dry out completely, most of that stuff will shrink, desiccate, and curl up. Then a dry copper shake should dislodge a significant amount of the residue, but give it a good long time to dry out, like a few months. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 2

RE: How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:23:46 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online quote: ORIGINAL: cyberdigger Looks like if you let it dry out completely, most of that stuff will shrink, desiccate, and curl up. Then a dry copper shake should dislodge a significant amount of the residue, but give it a good long time to dry out, like a few months. It's been dry for a few weeks now... There's no free water that I can see in it. But you're right, there may be some water still mixed in with the "crystal" stuff... What do you think the original contents coulda been? ...Probably not poisonous, right? _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 3

RE: How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:28:12 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12308 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online I can't tell you one way or the other about the contents.. I can imagine all kinds of ..ooh, icky weird stuff in there..! Don't swaller it none.. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 4

RE: How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:32:20 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4296 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: online Way to rain on my parade... _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 5

RE: How to clean bottle's original contents? - 11/9/2011 8:38:43 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12308 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Parade? Where's the baton twirlers? (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 6

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