lizardland

Unfortunately it doesn't. I did an experiment a few years ago with piles of fine grade lime, a spoonful of lime in the bottom of a pint glass full of water a pile on the ground open to the elements and a thin layer on the surface. After a year there was no change in any of the three, they all looked like the day I put them there -- and this is in a very wet, rainy climate. I also made another jar of lime/water solution and left various materials in it, a piece of mild steel, a piece of stainless, a piece of new brass (a new Swagelok fitting), a piece of aluminium and a piece of sheet neoprene. Again, all the materials sat in the wet lime for a year, there was some surface rust on the mild steel and the brass fitting had turned green but apart from that no corrosion whatsoever. It's amazing what you think of to do when you're bored

I am shocked at the mindset of divers who dump lime at dive sites. Dorothea quarry in Wales is full of dumped lime that has been there for years dumped by ****wits too lazy to dispose of it properly. There's even a pile in the water just at the entry/exit point that has been there well over a year without dissolving where some tosser has dumped it. Absolute idiots.

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