On 20 Jun 98, Bob Wanderer <aa0cy@nwrain.com> wrote:
> 1. If your soil is acidic, you want to go with aluminum/tinned/galvanized.
> 2. If your soil is neutral or alkaline, you want to go with copper.
> 3. The more acidic or alkaline your soil is (w/respect to a pH=7 or neutral),
> the quicker the material will be zapped.
>
> If I remember correctly ph=7 is neutral, numbers
> below 7 (6~0) is alkaline, and
> numbers above 7 (8~14) means
> acidic [the absolute numbers are,
> I believe, correct, but I
> may have which is acidic and
> which is alkaline {or base} reversed]. So if your
> soil pH is 5 or 6, the copper will last much
> longer than if the pH was 1 or 0. Ditto
> for the acid side. The crux of the issue
> is that you don't want to use copper if the
> pH=8; aluminum/tinned/galvanized will last
> far longer than copper in that
> environment.
>
> Make sense now?
>
Yes, Thanks Bob. You do have your numbers reversed.
a pH of 1-6.99999 is acid, and a pH of 7.000001 to 14 is alkaline.
And 7 is neutral.
73 Barry
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