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A liquid, solid, or gas that dissolves another solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution that is soluble in a certain volume of solvent at a specified temperature.
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Is there a substance that will eat through and completely dissolve carbon but not damage eng...
Both are widely available solvents which won't damage the metal parts (but avoid contact with rubber tubing) and are also used to remove clogs caused by paraffin wax.
P. S. …
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What solvents can get rid of oil stains?
Depending on where you live different dry-cleaning solvents are indeed the best choice. Perchloroethylene $\ce{Cl2C=CCl2}$ is probably still the easiest one to get. …
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Solvent for tire rubber
Rubber mix is a versatile material which is highly viscous at the room temperature, but softens upon heating to approx. 100 °C and can be dissolved in volatile organic solvents (even benzene and gasoline …
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How to re-suspend silver from the dried out silver paste?
According to SPI Supplies:
If the Dotite Silver Paint dries out, unlike some other silver paints, it can be re-suspended with the addition of SPI #05004 Silver Paint Thinner followed by an ultraso …
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Isopropanol in contact lens solution plastic bottle
Based on your description, it looks like you've determined both plastics correctly. In general, they both would work fine for storing isopropanol; however, according to the Thermo Fisher's Labware Che …
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Will toluene vapors damage a mirror made from PETG?
PETG is also not resistant against toluene.
A month-long contact under ambient conditions results a complete swollen/disintegrated PETG material (PDL rating 0), and an year-long exposure even causes w …
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Is it considered safe to sonicate with flammable solvents?
In general it should be relatively safe considering you take all the precautions required when working with volatile flammable liquids.
Specifically for sonication I can think of two safety aspects:
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Methylammonium lead(II) iodide perovskites in bulk form
Procedure from the paper by Xie et al. [1] (Powder XRD didn't reveal any other impurity phases in the bulk samples):
Synthesis of $\ce{CH3NH3PbI3}$. The as-prepared $\ce{CH3NH3I}$ and $\ce{PbI2}$ (Si …
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How to remove formaldehyde (smell) from clothes/jeans?
Formaldehyde is indeed used for disinfection, but usually there is a subsequent procedure involving formaldehyde neutralization with $10\%$ to $25\%$ aqueous ammonia solution introduced (as a spray) a …
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Polymers which are miscible in oil
Plastics Design Library series include tabulated parameters for the variety of polymers.
One of such parameters is a PDL number rating from 0 to 9:
0: solvent dissolved disintegrated
1: decomposition …
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Is propanol 1-2 diol 178 the same as propylene glycol?
Yes, “propanol 1-2 diol 178” is the same compound as propylene glycol and appears to be a fabricated name used in a manual for a proprietary cleaning system by Kirmuss Audio.
According to the article …
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Acetone-resistant clear plastic
According to Palstics International's Chemical Resistance Chart, the A-rated plastics (no solvent attack) towards acetone are:
ECTFE (Halar®): transparent films available
Fluorosint® PTFE: white
HD …
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Does clove oil/eugenol interact with nylon type plastics?
Nylon 612, primarily used for filaments and toothbrushes, is resistant to clove oil at 20 °C [1, p. 2034]:
Nylon 12, used for coatings, is also resistant to clove oil at 20 °C [1, p. 1829]:
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