Re: WHAT IS 'SALT ACID'?

Remember that the scientific literacy of your average movie mogul is likely
to be below that of my 5th-grade daughter. While hydrochloric acid ("marine
acid") was originally distilled from salt water (plus some other things), it
sounds like "salt acid" is just typical Hollywood pseudo-science. "Salt
acid" is another term for muriatic ("marine," hydrochloric) acid.

"Increase the angstrom power, Robin."
   
        
               -- Batman as portrayed by Adam West

Yours,


Dan Berger

MadSci Administrator


Reference: F.M. Akeroyd, Foundations of Chemistry 2000,
2, 99-125. The specific reference is on p. 122.