Re: "Boric acid" and gum

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:38 PM, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>   I tried adding a lot, a medium amount, a little bit, and a tiny  
> little bit.  None of them had any significant effect except the  
> tiny little bit seemed to make the gum slightly more viscous than  
> usual, just a little thicker gum, but hardly a gel.
This description isn't very exact; to be more precise, I used  
approximately 50 ml gum for each test; the amounts I used of  
saturated boric acid were: 100 ml, 50 ml, 20 ml, 10 ml, and 2-3 ml.   
It was only the last that seemed to thicken the gum at all, and that  
not very much.
kt