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What will remove this screen printed logo without destroying the polycarbonate safety sunglasses lens?
I bought some safety sunglasses and didn't notice until I'd taken the tags off that there's an annoying logo painted or printed right in my field of view. (You can feel with your fingertips or ...
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Powdered Dipropylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether [closed]
Entrepreneur here, background in electronics, so thank you in advance for your patience with me.
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Is Dipropylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether available as a powder? If not, is there a powdered ...
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Is propanol 1-2 diol 178 the same as propylene glycol?
I clean vinyl records in an ultrasonic vinyl record cleaning machine the manual states it uses propanol 1-2 diol 178 as a surfactant. I think this is the same chemical as propylene glycol. Is it?
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Is it considered safe to sonicate with flammable solvents?
I use a sonicator at work in a cleaning process. It involves sonicating acetone, NMP, and IPA. We would like to move forward with other flammables as well. We currently do the work in a hood, but no ...
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Suitable safe cleaning solution for aliphatic urethane
I am looking for a suitable cleaning solution for a sprayed on coating that is an acrylic aliphatic urethane. My end goal would ideally be something that can neutralize rust, whiten and brighten the ...
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For what reasons, is isopropyl alcohol widely used as a cleaning solvent?
I have worked in electronics and aeronautics industry 30 years ago, and I have always wondered, what were the specific properties of isopropyl alcohol, which make it used instead of other alcohols ...
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How to remove formaldehyde (smell) from clothes/jeans?
Bought several jeans, then to discover they have a really nauseating smell, that is not removed by washing. Reckon it's formaldehyde, from what I can read. Anyway, assuming you have jeans with ...
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Bleach turned towel bright pink before fading to white
We have some relatively new white towels that were getting dirty, so we decided to clean them with bleach (standard Clorox). When we sprayed the diluted bleach on the towels they immediately turned ...
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Solvents for tartrates / tannins that won't attack glass
At the bottom of my wine decanter (which due to its shape is fantastically hard to clean mechanically) a layer of reddish brown precipitate forms. I believe this is probably potassium bitartrate ...
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Isopropyl alcohol to clean Nylon plastic
I have a hardwood wooden frame, possibly lacquered, containing some very dirty nylon plastic pieces, a bit like the teeth of a comb, where the frame goes along top and bottom. I know it's nylon ...
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What would be a safe/good surfactant for ultrasonic cleaning vinyl records + distilled water and isopropyl alcohol
Title pretty much says it all besides the type of records I believe are pvc (60s - current, someone correct me if there may be other materials but I absolutely don't have any shellac records) and I ...
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How to dissolve the build-up from a paraffin based oil?
I have a CNC lathes that use "oil" for cutting fluid during the machining of mostly metal materials. Typically a heavy paraffinic based cutting oil (petroleum distillate) is used during machining. ...
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How to reverse damage done by nail polish remover without acetone to a laptop keyboard?
Today I was trying to clean my laptop with a nail polish remover (ingredients: ethyl acetate, peg-40, hydrogenated castor oil, panthenol, parfum, d-limonene, geraniol, ci 26100, ci 60725). Not only it ...
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How to remove epoxy on clothes?
How to remove epoxy on clothes in the perspective of chemistry?
More precisely in my case, how to remove the hardener of epoxy, which consists of two components: hardener and resin.
The clothes is ...
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How paper-tag survive in the dry-cleaning process?
This prevent the clothes from being ruined by ink on the paper tag.
To put the garments attached with this paper through the whole process of dry-cleaning,
I have the questions listed below
paper ...
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