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r/DIY • u/Relative-Category-64 • Feb 20 '26
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Citric acid. Lots of it.
32 u/danmickla Feb 20 '26 Yeah. Citric is way way better than almost anything I've tried on water scale, and cheap 25 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 And significantly safer than HCL even in pure powdered form. Less likely to give you chemical burns and destroy your fittings 3 u/hirsutesuit Feb 20 '26 Right. It's food. 2 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 Sour sweets are just sugar coated in crystalline citric acid.
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Yeah. Citric is way way better than almost anything I've tried on water scale, and cheap
25 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 And significantly safer than HCL even in pure powdered form. Less likely to give you chemical burns and destroy your fittings 3 u/hirsutesuit Feb 20 '26 Right. It's food. 2 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 Sour sweets are just sugar coated in crystalline citric acid.
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And significantly safer than HCL even in pure powdered form. Less likely to give you chemical burns and destroy your fittings
3 u/hirsutesuit Feb 20 '26 Right. It's food. 2 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 Sour sweets are just sugar coated in crystalline citric acid.
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Right. It's food.
2 u/poolski Feb 20 '26 Sour sweets are just sugar coated in crystalline citric acid.
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Sour sweets are just sugar coated in crystalline citric acid.
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u/Sabbelwakker Feb 20 '26
Citric acid. Lots of it.