[Stoves] Stoves using wood and charcoal at the same time

[Tom Miles]

If you taste it you'll find that it is salty. It's probably potassium, the
ingredient for lye soap. 

Tom

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Subject: Re: [Stoves] Stoves using wood and charcoal at the same time

Dean  and Peter,

During our hay burning trials we had a white powder deposit on water cooled
surfaces.
Tom Miles suggested at the time that it was likely a potasium sulfate or
chloride. It 
was a good example of ash condensation.

Alex

> Dear Dean,
> 
> Could it be ash?
> 
> Peter Verhaart
> 
> 
> Dean Still wrote:
> > Dear Tom,
> >
> > Here's a question that has puzzled me for years. What is the white
deposit
> > left by burning charcoal on the bottom of the pot?
> >
> > All Best,
> >
> > Dean
> 
> 
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