A Mystery Mixture
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 00:47
in Physics & Chemistry
The mixture appeared in the troubled imagination of a character in Bugliosi's Helter Skelter. I almost grew up thinking the mixture was a solid because my parents stored it but rarely used it. If you think of water as the customary solvent of solutions, and if a solvent, by definition, is the major component of a homogeneous mixture, well, we have a problem. Water makes up only 17% of this concoction, so technically it is one of its solutes. read more