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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sorry, I know this has been a topic a million times, but I bought some and want to know if it is okay. I got the nailpolish remover kind, but it is one that says 100% acetone on it. Will this work fine? Feel free to post good links from here on ccf, I know there are probably many.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3276 Posts |
From rite aid and its called "renewal". Ingredients are: acetone, fragrance, denatonium benzoate. Is this okay or should I return it.
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Moderator
 United States
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Return it. If the ingredient list consists of more than the single word "acetone," you don't want it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
Thanks dave. Any idea where to get pure acetone?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
Go to a hardware store. It should be with the other kinds of paint thinner, turpentine, xylene, etc.
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Valued Member
United States
297 Posts |
What are we building with said Acetone?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
Thank you too captainfwiffo! I will try there tonight. And cd god, I want it to get some gunk off of some really nasty silver dimes that I found from roll searching.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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murrellington, I bought the same sort of nail polish remover from my local Krogers. It says 100% acetone along with some fragrance... I did the residue test as someone suggested here... I let about a cupful of it evaporate in a bowl (outdoors). It evaporated very quickly and there was no leftover residue whatsoever. I figured for the amount I'd be using it (very little), this was sufficient for my use and wasn't worth a trip to the hardware store. Just my thoughts. For the couple times I've used it, I haven't had any issues or problems.
Les
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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for the few dollars more, you get a larger quantity and its pure. seems a no brainer to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Definately get it from the hardware store. They do have smaller containers of it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Don't use that! Get the hardware type that's PURE acetone. They should be sued for using 100% acetone on the label, it's more like 99.9% but that's enough to make it unacceptable for coin use.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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but it is one that says 100% acetone on it...Ingredients are: acetone, fragrance, denatonium benzoate It is not pure if it has other ingredients, those additives are precisely why you are not supposed to use nail polish remover. "Pure" is typically 99.5% with the balance being water. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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wonder why it said 100% and then listed 3 ingredients. lol.
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New Member
United States
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Even the pure acetone you get from a chemical supply house like ThermoFisher or SigmaAldrich are 99.5-99.9 unless you specifically order high purity chromatography acetone (which is a bit expensive). There are residues left over from any type of solvent you will find in the hardware store. I don't know if this is kosher for coins, so maybe someone can chime in, but using a bit of compressed air to dry the coin will keep residue from depositing on the coin.
As others said, yes if there are fragrances etc in your acetone, by definition it cannot be 100%.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Never clean coins!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Using acetone is not considered "cleaning" a coin as acetone is not capable of chemically reacting with coinage metals under normal circumstances. It only removes surface contamination/debris and nothing else.
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