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Re: Clouded Glass
It is highly unlikely that you are actually having the glass dissolve
before your eyes. I read at one point that while glass does dissolve in
water, it is a slow and minute process taking many years before changes
can be measured.
From the process you describe it is far more likely than some other
material is being deposited on your glass as you refer to the wetting and
drying of the glass top. If is was the glass dissolving it would occur
faster with constant submersion. The experiment I have heard about
involved grinding glass to a powder and placing in a sealed container for
several years with only a small portion being dissovled at the end of this
time.
However if it is glass simply get some Hydrofloric acid and this will
dissolve the glass deposits and the glass quite nicely. Look at a hobby
store where glass etching is done.
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