I like to put lemon or vitamins (those tablets that also create fizzyness) in my water and have been wondering if it is problematic to do so in my aluminium drinking bottle. I wouldn’t normally think so, since soft drinks also often come in aluminium cans, but I’m not sure. Are aluminium salts even unhealthy?

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    1 year ago

    This is completely false. The lining is so the metal can’t be broken down by whatever is in it. Without it contaminants can leach into the product, or even dissolve the can. It’s in any metal that touches food products.

    Leave water in those non coated metal containers long enough and it’ll leach from the metal.

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      Leave water in those non coated metal containers long enough and it’ll leach from the metal.

      in some cosmic sense yeah there will be equilibrium after some time but most of the time it’s just called “corrosion”

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        I believe the distinction is necessary, corrosion would be the entire bottle “dissolving” which wouldn’t happen with water. With leaching only a few elements would transfer.

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            When the surface oxides, that layer get removed, than the surface oxides, that layer disappears. Repeat ad-nauseam until it’s completely gone.

            Dissolving is oversimplifying, but eventually the entire thing will disappear with corrosion.