Questions tagged [cleaning]
For questions about cleaning agents and methods used to remove dirt, stains, residues, and bad smells, including proper waste disposal. For particular questions about surfactants, use the [surfactants] tag.
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Brown sediment in shower, nothing works
I have an ensuite shower with white floor (or call it pad) which is from some kind of composite plastic material.
Over time, brown discoloration and sediments started to acumulate in areas where the ...
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Are acids effective in removing soap scum?
In my experience, most of the commercial products intended for removing soap scum from bathroom surfaces are ineffective. No matter how long you leave it on or how hard you scrub, the soap scum doesn'...
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Can vinegar be used to clean wood (a porous surface) after it has been cleaned with germicidal bleach?
I recently cleaned moldy air vents and hardwood floor with diluted germicidal bleach water (1/3 cup bleach to 1 gall). I would like to go back in with vinegar to make sure the mold stays gone, mostly ...
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Getting magnesium chloride gunk off a wood shelf
I have a situation. Some magnesium bath salts got left on a wood shelf in my bathroom in a bag that was not closed. Being hydroscopic, it sucked up a ton of water, and then spilled onto the wood. ...
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Rotten chicken smell
My boyfriend and I have a camper and he forgot to take a package of chicken out of the refrigerator before parking it. The chicken sat in the fridge which was off in the heat for a few months. We ...
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Does sodium percarbonate break down into 'safe' compounds in water?
I'm writing this question as a wine brewer (not a chemist), so apologies if I use inaccurate terminology.
I'm interested in using sodium percarbonate as a cleaning/sanitising solution for brewing ...
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Could mixing naphtha-based cleaner and industrial floor cleaner produce hazardous substances?
I work in a car dealership, and the guy who cleans the workshop uses an industrial floor scrubber / vac on the floor tiles. On particularly stubborn oil / soot marks, he uses naphtha-based brake ...
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How to dissolve cobalt ferrite spinel for cleaning reactor? [closed]
I put some cobalt ferrite powder and did some catalytic test and I can't clean my reactor very well. I have already used aqua regia, hydrochloric and nitric acids, sodium hydroxide at high ...
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Possible Plumbing Acid through Leaky Pipe in Floating Ceiling, How to Test/Clean?
So I had a plumber in the other day, and I don't know if he used acid drain cleaner or not. The pipe where the possible leak is, is over some drop ceiling (vinyl or expanded polystyrene).
Before I go ...
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How does soap help in cleaning clothes and rinsing off oil and grease?
When we say that we agitate clothes so that grease particles get separate out from clothes as ionic part of hydrocarbon chains of soap is attached to water and non polar part of chain is dissolved in ...
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Converting dissolved chromates to solids for disposal
I have 4 liters of electrolysis waste that was used to process stainless steel cathodes.
About half of it was oxalic acid based and the other half was sodium bicarbonate based (currently stored ...
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Best bet for separating fused glassware
I have a sintered glass funnel stuck in a flask with a 24/40 ground glass joint.
I regularly used this glassware to process very dilute solutions of uncured photopolymer resin dissolved in ethanol. ...
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General cleaning solution for clinical chemistry applications
I want to reuse some plastic and glass items that I am using to do colorimetric concentration analysis of serum and urine. There are some enzymatic assays, mineral assays and so on. I have been trying ...
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Can Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) be used for disinfection of medical device (e.g. of polyethylene material)? [closed]
Chlorhexidine is commonly used as a skin antiseptic, hand disinfectant, endodontic irrigant etc. It possess antibacterial and antifungal properties, and is considered low toxicity when used in low ...
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Cleaning with Hydrogen Peroxide is not a chemical process?
Reading here:
if the peroxide does seem to help is that the bubbles forming and foaming is helping dislodge tiny particles in the cracks of the mineral.
Is this the case in general for cleaning with ...
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