To anyone starting to experiment with sodium acetate for heat packs, some quick advice:<div><div><br></div><div>1) you shouldn't be boiling sodium acetate directly. Boil water and melt NaOAc in a separate glass/flask sitting in the boiling water. Then you can pour it into bags and eliminate air bubbles before sealing, etc.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>2) the baking soda + vinegar reaction is not efficient. it's great to be able to cite this reaction as evidence that NaOAc is relatively safe. However, much easier to order the salt in crystal form.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sage Radachowsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sage.radachowsky@gmail.com">sage.radachowsky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Oh yeah! I forgot about this ...<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyyTPBZMh4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGyyTPBZMh4</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Ingredients: vinegar, baking soda, plastic bags, hair clips!<br>
<div><br></div><div>Who has any time to try this?</div><div><br></div><div>We could make them by the hundreds. Boil them in bulk, and bring them back to camp.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>
<div>Sage</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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