pokute wrote:nigel wrote:
Elite Gun Cleaner not only penetrates down to the steel's molecular pores while cleaning carbon, copper and lead fouling, but it also conditions the metal to repel future fouling.
That sounds like advertising BS, any truth to it?
You show show me your steel molecule, and I'll show you my Loch Ness monster.
I don't have time to give a chemistry lesson today. Suffice it to say, the Hoppe's Elite functions as advertised.[/quote]
nigel wrote:Molecules and pores, not a crystalline structure with grain boundaries?
Yikes... Quoting hell! Need to unravel this... There!
Okay, back from the lawyer, chemistry lesson follows:
It is not the language that I would use, but it is not wrong.
Consider that the product is a fairly complex solution of salts that is designed to dissolve (and neutralize the resulting compounds!) a wide range of chemical species that would not be part of any common steel.
Further, it must not leave any residue that can contribute to future reactions.
Further, it must not react to any appreciable degree with the disparate compounds (hence molecules) that make up the "steel" (a heterogeneous brickle with typically no fewer than five phases present).
Ideally, it should provide some passivation effect AND leave a residual barrier over the cleaned surface - A surface that is, at a very small level, cratered like the moon after being scrubbed with incandescent hot particles and gases... A layer many molecules thick is in left as porous as a sponge by the action of the propellant gases and entrained particles
So, the technical writer, with a minimal science education consisting perhaps of no more than a year each of chemistry, physics, and biology would write about molecules and pores, justified by his lack of specialized metallurgical knowledge.[/quote]
Phew
Chamber's empty, magazine's full, safety's broken.