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Bedrock of the Community
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I have been in the prep room before when the acid waste "jug" started releasing a nice brownish bromine cloud...thankful it was under the hood.
-SFWUSC
Just curious. What school is this? We take such massive care here in safety that the usage of Acetone in our lab as you mentioned makes me wonder. High school chem labs are scarry enough but our college ones are just as scarry. |
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SuperDave: Kind of a really neat looking coin. Difficult to know how large it is from the photo. How big is that one? Some really interesting designing.
It's US Cent-sized, and reeded. I had no intention of buying such a coin, but I was looking over one of Bill Rosenblum's lists and it kinda jumped out at me. Now I'm looking to do a set of 19th Century European copper/bronze minors. Funny how that happens.  |
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Quote: Just curious. What school is this?
My guess would be USC ;)
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
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LOL
U. of South Carolina in Columbia (USC)
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Acetone is very flammable, but otherwise isn't that dangerous. I mean you can buy it in a drug store even if you are 8 years old.
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Acetone is very flammable, but otherwise isn't that dangerous. I mean you can buy it in a drug store even if you are 8 years old.
-SFWUSC
Now that statement is far from true. Haven't you noticed that women's finger nail polish remover is primarily Acetone? Yes you can buy it everywhere and women today are very dangerous and I suspect Acetone in their polish remover is responsible.  If this answer is seen by the wrong person I won't be around anymore, and that is even more proof of how dangerous that stuff is. |
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hmmph.. acetone? we don't need no steenkin' acetone...  |
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Just Carl,
I think that stuff you are talking about isn't acetone. I think it is Estrogen and Progesterone :)
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Question sfwusc, If I put Acetone in a covered jar (pickle jar screwed on lid) in my kitchen for a few days soaking coins, what are my biggest worries if any. I guess what I'm getting at is expansion. Will it expand (the fumes) and kaboom, or am I okay  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Bedrock of the Community
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You should be fine as long as you don't have a gas or woodburning stove in your kitchen.
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thanks for all the replys guys  I just checked my coins and the acetone had evaporated. And I still have gunk |
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I tried keeping acetone in an old food jar. The lid of the jar had some type of plastic coating that swelled and deformed to the point I could no longer screw it closed. That's the downside I can see. Aside from that, I don't think there's much kaboom potential.
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Acetone is extremely flammable. There is MUCH kaboom potential! A lot of people use foil, secured with a rubberband, as the 'lid' over the glass container. Anything plastic will degrade quickly (I've tested this a couple of times, accidentally , forgetting about the glass requirement). |
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I just checked my coins and the acetone had evaporated. And I still have gunk
Do not allow the acetone to evaporate when soaking a coin. If anything was removed, it will simply redeposit back onto the coin surface after it evaporates. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Do not allow the acetone to evaporate when soaking a coin. If anything was removed, it will simply redeposit back onto the coin surface after it evaporates.
As noted this is one of the biggest problems when using anything to clean a coin. You have to remove whatever was used to clean the coin. Try thinking of this. If you wash your car with soap and leave it dry, your car will have a residue of the soap all over it. This is why people then rinse the soap off with water. Same with a coin. Use the Acetone, then rinse with distilled water. |
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