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For questions about purification - the process of rendering something pure, clean of foreign or undesired elements. Not to be confused with [metallurgy] or [chromatography].

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How does % purity on household products work?

For example, toilet bowl cleaner is 9.5% HCl. First off, do you see "w/v" mentioned after those figures, i.e- $\ce{HCl}$ 9.5% (w/v)? Does this mean that for every 90.5 moles of H2O (or other …
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Un-denaturing industrial alcohol

(I'm no chemist, but here's my take on it) Let's see: I’m an alcoholic, and I really hate having to dole out large amounts of cash to purchase your usual "drinking"-ethanol. So I get this amazing …
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