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Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:02 pm**

I was making up some iron acetate here and I walked by just as it went all striped:

I just thought it was cool how all the layers separated out with clear boundary definitions.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:10 pm**

What are you using the iron acetate for?

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:39 pm**

*hushed whisper*
It's part of my experimentation with staining, contrasts, and finishing.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:41 pm**

*whispers back* O.K. Let me know how you make out. Chemistry was my worst subject

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:52 am**

Man, yours is pretty! It looks almost like a nice beer. Mine looks like a jar of Balrog urine. How did you do that?

Posted: **Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:02 am**

TreverT wrote:Man, yours is pretty! It looks almost like a nice beer. Mine looks like a jar of Balrog urine. How did you do that?

There's no smiley for ROFL is there. "Balrog urine"

That's the funniest thing I've read in a week or more.

I don't think I did anything special. The only thing I might have done that would affect the mix is heat the jar to about 150F as I was dissolving the steel. That sped up the process, and allowed the steel to get dissolved before the water in the mix had a chance to rust it. It doesn't look anywhere NEAR as nice now. Now it looks like a sewage experiment reject with chunks rusty steel swimming around in murky brown liquid. It sure as hell does the job, though!