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Re: Alum

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Subject: Re: Alum
From: George Slusarczuk <yurko at warwick_net>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:15:15 -0500
References: <8525667F.0040B14C.00 at NOTES-INTERNET_LUDL.COM>

Hello Christopher,

If you can not follow Taigha's suggestion to buy alum from "any
Chemist/Drug store usually in large Crystals" -- which is a very good
suggestion, *if* your local drug store carries it/is willing to order
it. Anothet source might be your local High School chemistry lab.

A cheaper source would be a store that sells home canning supplies. Alum
is sometimes used in making sour pickles.

Carolina Biological (Tel: 1-800-334-5551) carries it (#84-3490), but it
is expensive there.

If everything else fails, use a "styptic pencil", which is almost pure
aluminum sulfate. (For those *not* shaving with a blade: if you cut
yourself, a styptic pencil is used to stem the blood.)

Best,

George


> 
> Can anyone give me the proper procedure for using Alum for "sterilizing"
> live plants and if so can you also let me know where Alum can be purchased.
> 
>         Christopher Graseck
> 
>         C/O Ludl Electronic Products
> 
>         171 Brady Avenue, Hawthorne NY 10532
> 
>         cgraseck at ludl_com

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