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The wine shop

shadeT - 5-10-2003 at 05:30

hello. i was in the wine shop today and i found some useful chemicals like CuSO4 , paraffine oil , h2so3 , sulfur ,something named chrystal soda ( what's that ? ) , and i saw some other acid , i forgot what it was ,some powder that makes wine clear and many other stuff , i didn't have time to examine all of it . soon i'm going again and i'm going to make a list of all of the stuff. did any of you found some other stuff in wine shops ???

Wine chemicals

chloric1 - 8-10-2003 at 20:31

Well yes tehy can be useful for about 5 or 6 ingredients. I believe the acid is tartaric that you discussed but they also have Citric. Also, check out any bottles or other equipement for possibilities in conversion into stills.

Marvin - 8-10-2003 at 22:10

Crystal soda is probably washing soda (hydrated sodium carbonate).

Also you might find, sodium metabisulphite, lactic acid, tannin, malic acid (from which maleic acid, fumeric acid and maleic anhydride are possible in very high yield), potassium carbonate. possibly potassium sorbate.

I'm surprised you found sulphur, sulphuric acid and copper sulphate though, you dont get that in wine shops here.