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I thought you were inferring the citric acid cancelled the bicarb in term s
of alkalinity.

No, I was just saying that the good (vitamin) that citric acid may do
might be outweighed by the (alleged) ill that sodium may do.

Organic bit
Under normal conditions (but excluding light) the hormone rooting
mixture we
are discussing will last indefinately even in the presence of hydrared
magnesium silicate. The only ingredient that may cause problems is any
fungicide in the mix (I have no knowledge of that)



Why does it carry a 'use by' date?

Some don't (as per original post by thesquire) but I suppose these days
most things carriy a use before date. It helps stock rotation.
Just had a look at salt , olive oil and asprin all of which have expiry
dates and none of these have any shelf life problems.

No, but these are foods, and the EU in its 'wisdom' requires a sell-by
date. I've noticed that old olive oil (use-by dates hold no thrall over
me, either) tends to solidify at a higher and higher temperature as it
ages, even when the bottle has been sealed.

In the late 1990s we were still eating jam my mother made in the '60s.

True, some of it had to be microwaved for a while to redissolve the
rocks of crystalline sugar which had grown...

Let's get back to discussing Linux:-)

I've got a distro which runs from a floppy...

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Rusty
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