Homebrew PCBs

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:40:21 +1100, Adam Seychell  
<a_seychell@...> wrote:

>
> Copper(II) oxide is black/brown powder. You'll get this if you heat
> copper chloride pretty hot. All you do is make the copper insoluble so
> its much less likely to leach in soil.


so how do flip-sticks work?
the copper oxide ends up in the ash and all they produce is chlorine? or  
what?
why can't chemistry be as easy as electronics???

ST