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hardware cloth in feeders with bleach
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Peter de Bruyn Kops <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:33:58 -0500
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> Bob Harrison wrote:
>All my inside frame feeders have a full length V of 8 mesh hardware cloth.

This is a chemistry question.  Assuming the hardware cloth is galvanized and
not stainless, what is the chance that bleach in syrup eats away at the
hardware cloth and leaches zinc and other metals into the syrup?

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