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correction for FR... WARNING CHEMISTRY!!

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Posted by: nasicus at Thu Jul 3 18:46:33 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by nasicus ]  
   

"coco puff and sand mix, neutral and means most normal criteria for nesting captive snakes."

Quartz is a very weak acid. SiO2 2 H2O = H4SiO4. (compare this to the reaction of CO2, also a weak acid : CO2 H2O = H2CO3).

Quartz has extremely low solubility at low (surface) temperatures so you will not see much production of the silicic acid. You could effectively consider it to be negligible for most purposes.

Although sandy soils are typically acidic, this is more a case of absence of base salts in the sands than actual acid production from quartz dissolution (there is no base to react with and neutralize the carbonic acid - H2CO3 - that is naturally present in rainwater, and the organic acids that come from decaying vegetation, so the soils tend toward acidic conditions). BTW ph depends on its proximity to water. The further away from water less alkaline it gets because water is known to be a base. And in the deserts of Texas, rain water let alone standing water is rare...

And Coco Puff has a pH of 5.0-6.8 which is neutral to slightly acidic.

Care to learn more FR or did I just lose you?


   

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