• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You don’t want concentrated lye, but diluted lye is safe enough to make soap. My question, and I’m not the only one asking in this thread, is- is a mixture of borax and lye a good coolant for a supercomputer?

    I guess you could argue that the green is so they would recognize a coolant leak…

    • MechanicalJester@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      The lye concentration used to make soap is rather nasty if it gets on your skin and you don’t deal with it immediately. Source: I’ve made a lot of soap from scratch.