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Generally applications of stearic acid exploit its bifunctional character, with a polar head group that can be attached to metal cations and a nonpolar chain .There is a clue in that sentence.A polar headgroup of atoms that can be attached to metal cations .The stearic acid molecule looks like a long tube with an acid group attached.triffid

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Heres an intestering fact about vitamin C.It actually can provide some protection against oxygen.
Ascorbate usually acts as an antioxidant. It typically reacts with oxidants of the reactive oxygen species, such as the hydroxyl radical formed from hydrogen peroxide. Such radicals are damaging to animals and plants at the molecular level due to their possible interaction with nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids. Sometimes these radicals initiate chain reactions. Ascorbate can terminate these chain radical reactions by electron transfer. Ascorbic acid is special because it can transfer a single electron, owing to the stability of its own radical ion called "semidehydroascorbate", dehydroascorbate. The net reaction is:[/size]RO• + C6H7O

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So antioxidants in your ingredients for your cells will protect the metals therein from oxygen.And tumeric powder is an antioxidant.The spice I was wondering about earlier.triffid

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Here is something rather interesting that I discovered.


Venetian priest and physicist Giuseppe Zamboni developed the first leak proof high voltage "dry" batteries with terminal voltages of over 2000 Volts. They consisted of thousands of small metallic foil discs of tin or an alloy of copper and zinc called "tombacco", separated by paper discs stacked in glass tubes. The technology was not well understood at the time and while Zamboni consciously avoided the use of any conventional corrosive aqueous electrolyte in the cells, hence the name "dry" battery, the electrolyte was actually provided by the humidity in the paper discs and a variety of experimental greasy acidic pulps spread thinly on the foils to minimise polarisation effects. Although the battery voltage was very high, the internal resistance was thousands of megohms so the current drawn from the batteries was about 10-(-)9th amps, limiting the battery's potential applications. One notable application however was a primitive electrostatic clock mechanism in which a pendulum was attracted towards the high voltage terminal of a Zamboni pile by the electrostatic force between the pendulum and the terminal. When the pendulum touched the terminal it acquired the same charge as the terminal and was consequently deflected away from it towards the opposite pole of another similar pile from which, by a similar mechanism it was deflected back again, thus maintaining the oscillation. The current drain or discharge rate of the batteries was so low as to be undetectable with instruments available at the time and it was thought that the pendulum was a "perpetual electromotor". In fact Zamboni primary batteries have been known to last for over 50 years before becoming completely discharged!"

And that led me to this: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=Exhibit1

And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_dioxide

And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombac

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I posted something about that here before.There was one made in 1840 and its powering a clock today.Molten sulfur was used to seal it against  water in the air.Something I could use one day instead of wax.You are right they are interesting and are thought to have been made  with honey as an ingredient.Honey never spoils.Open a jar of it and it just crystallizes.triffid