Zhanga: May 14, 2004

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Friday, May 14, 2004 (7 comments)

So if you agree with Charles and think that grapefruit cannot do damage to car paint... think again.

Sources: http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/190acidrain.html, http://www.iclei.org/EFACTS/ACIDRAIN.HTM [link removed], http://www.moderncarcare.com/Articles/161deta2.html, http://www.geocities.com/baja/dunes/1240/myvair.htm.

Acid rain is usually around pH 4 and as low as 2.6:

Water droplets collected from the base of clouds in the Eastern U.S. during the summer have an average pH of 3.6, with some values as low as pH 2.6.

This is used as an example of an extreme low:

In some regions of New York State, rain with a pH of 2.6 has been measured.

Cars can take a lot of damage from acid rain. I've read that a blue car had green splotches after a rainstorm in New Jersey. Here's what else happens:

They [bugs] can add a dent or a hole wherever they happen to be and etch a hole into the clear coat, just like acid rain.

The paint is atrocious -- DC-area acid rain has completely eaten away the mid-eighties respray[...]

DC acid rain pH is >2.6 because that's the low, recorded in NY... and grapefruit pH is around 3 (2.9-3.3 is the usually cited value). So I think it's capable of eating away quite a bit of paint. Don't forget about the quality of construction of my car.

So next time you decide to be a total freaking idiot, remember that you may have to pay a lot of money to get things fixed. Actually, if you're that stupid, you must be Wilcox and the easier solution is to just die right now.

And while I was at these sites, I found the best chem question ever, beginning "If the pH of grapefruit juice is 3 (pH = 3), and the pH of beer is 5 (pH = 5), calculate..."

Oh, and Charles. Han di and I were on the topic of cheating... so naturally you came up. Let me quote her advice for you: "我如果是他，我就去撞墙！或者去跳楼！" ("If I were him, I'd run into the wall! Or jump off a building!") Now that bears an uncanny resemblance to something I'd say... like slam your head against the wall multiple times? Well Charles, don't make too big of a hole in your wall.

11:24PM

Today sucked because I got so bored at school. I just wanted to leave.

During one period we went to Snoddy's room to cover her walls with Zoom into Science posters. We managed to get eighteen posters along the top of her walls, one on the flagpole, and one on the TV before she noticed. She flipped, but didn't socialistically order us to take them down. Then Gene put one on the overhead projection screen... I tried to distract her but she noticed when he rolled it up really loudly.

Juice club meeting sucked. The only good part was when I owned some disgusting juice. I thought plum juice would be a lot better. Then the coconut stuff was so bad that I actually spit it out. Yes, I wasted juice. It was so nasty though!

Oh I almost forgot. Dumb Wilcox threw a piece of a grapefruit at my car and it exploded acid all over my car. I tried forcing him to give money for a car wash, but he said he'd clean it, which didn't happen. I had to go home and hose it.

Congrats to the tennis people.

7:14PM

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