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   dlzc to All   
   Re: OT: alcohol based perfume removal?   
   19 Nov 21 05:42:28   
   
   From: dlzc1@cox.net   
      
   Dear T:   
      
   On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 10:56:01 AM UTC-7, T wrote:   
   ...   
   > We have had no luck with vinegar. Vinegar use to work   
   > wonders until these new persistent perfumes came out.   
      
   It is just generally safer than ozone, and works to some extent to remove   
   smoker's smell from a car.   
      
   > Are they alcohol soluble? If so, how would you remove   
   > them. How about fat and wax soluble? You would think   
   > hot water and detergent would whack them ?? Then   
   > there are the nanoparticles.   
      
   These are compounds targeted / selected to be the cheapest, and most   
   noticeable to humans.   
      
   > In the past, I have read some of the patents and scents   
   > are triggered by body heat. They do comes off in hot   
   > water, but they won't stop coming off. It is like   
   > I have discovered perpetual motion.   
   >   
   > You mentioned vacuum?   
      
   These compounds have a vapor pressure.  Get the heat up, and pull a vacuum,   
   and you "boil" them off faster.  They will be coming out in the exhaust stream   
   of the shop vac, so make sure it is sitting "outside".   
      
   David A. Smith   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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