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I spent a bunch of time in art classes and learned more practical chemical safety and disposal than my actual chemistry classes.
Best way to get rid of acetone is what my boss made me and a co-worker do once:
Toss it onto some metal plates that had been left in 110 degree weather. They were also painted black.
Did you know that’s enough for acetone to flash-light? We didn’t until that moment, then we had fun
Let’s hope for all your wellbeing that it was fun and not !FUN!
sounds like they need to a
cetone for their sinsThat’s just the natural aging process. Plumbing just gets saggy and wrinkly. Ask any man over 50.
I fondly remember my organic chemistry lab professor giving us all a lecture that was something like this:
“I see that you children have learned how good acetone is at cleaning glassware. And you are correct: it is excellent. However, you cannot pour it down the sink and we have to pay for hazardous waste disposal. So use soap, water, and elbow grease instead.”
This is so irresponsible, everyone knows you pour it out outside.
into the gravel filled used oil pit?
Finally, an educated person up to date on the latest in popular science.
My favorite overheard undergrad story:
I was walking past the lecture hall right after an organic chemistry midterm, and there was a cluster of 4-5 students talking about the exam. One asked about question 8b, and another one said “you’re not supposed to mix nitric acid and ethanol, that makes TNT, right?” I had to stifle a chuckle as I walked by.
So close, and yet so far! Nitrated acetone is explosive, and TNT (trinitrotoluene) is also made with nitric acid, but toluene is a much more complex molecule than acetone. If those undergrads could figure out how to turn acetone into TNT efficiently, they’d get a Nobel!
If those undergrads could figure out how to turn acetone into TNT…
Smelling it untill it’s totally evaporated. Even if I much prefer isopropyl alcohol.
EHS would raise hell if they caught us putting waste solvent in anything but a hazardous waste container…
Insane motherfuckers: “Pour the acetone in my mouth!”
I fought hard to get a solvent extractor at my work. 11k paid for it’s self in no time and almost no chemical disposal fees.
Whichever one has the post polystyrene in it, right?
How else am I supposed to get rid of the agar huh?
You know, I used to do this as a teenager, when cleaning my bearings with acetone, and I recall my family needing to get the sink repaired due to leakages getting quite severe at times.
Only through this post have I come to realise, 20 years later, that I was most likely at fault for the issue.
I mean I’m still not going to admit it to anyone, but it’s good to know and stuff.I had a bong as a freshman. I cleaned it with acetone. I then had several tubes instead.
Never understood why folks used acrylic bongs, like, how do you clean it? I kinda figured they were meant as disposable party bongs.
90%+ rubbing alcohol and rock salt actually does a really good job, it just takes more elbow grease. Still won’t be as clean as literally fucking dissolving it, but that’s how I’d do it if I couldn’t use acetone.
I use 70% isopropyl and it dissolves everything except for a film around the inner chamber.
Like a lump of tar just stops existing as a solid thing. Looks interesting after like 6 hours.
70% is better for disinfectant, as the water helps carry the alcohol across the cell membrane.
90+ works better to dissolve bong residues, and the coarse salt works as an abrasive
The gold standard for party bongs is shitpipes. Dunno about other places but for a Euro standard one, you need, bottom to top, 1x 100mm end cap, 1x 100mm sleeve (pipe to pipe coupling), 1x 100mm adapter to 40mm (the 100mm side should fit the sleeve), some length of 40mm pipe, some means to drill two holes, and two things not available at any random hardware store: a preferably metal what’s it called in English the thing that goes into the water and some tissue to tighten that metal thing in its hole, wrap in a taper and twist in. Try to get an adapter that’s angled, there’s also ones with a flat step instead of (quite aggressively) tapering the diameter.
Completely and utterly indestructible at least when it comes to banging it up. In principle also fit to handle acetone those Euro standard pipes are polypropylene but I wouldn’t push it. Tons of water in there, definitely bottom-heavy, and very light when empty.
You really don’t clean it you let it get gunky, just replace the water, it’s not like the gunk would dissolve into there. If you really have to, just spend what five to ten bucks on new hardware. Euro pipes should in principle hold up to acetone they’re PP but eh, why. If it works it’s probably still going to make the thing unsable for a week or so.
Back in the day we had a 50mm wide 1m long pipe. The bowl was on one end and the ends of the pipe were open. We would put some snow in it, the one person lit the bowl and plugged the end of the pipe with their palm while another person ripped until the pipe was full. Then the dude would move their hand and the other person would clear the pipe. It was so smooth with the snow in it. So smooth. I think it was called a steam roller or something. It was a long time ago.
Now that’s science.
Bucket bong has entered the chat.
This person smokes
I always thought the same, and I’ve been toking for about two decades. For pieces my friends and I always prefer glass. If using a glass piece though, it’s important to use vinegar once in a while (not just Isopropanol) to get rid of the chance of mould build up.
Let’s just all start smoking with acetone as our bong water! So many problems solved :)
Your secret is safe with us Jaden
Except admitting it to 50,000 lemmy users, haha. No worries, I didn’t know acetone ruins pvc until this post either.
At least you know why your sinks continue to melt now
Context: acetone will dissolve ABS plastic. Drain pipes can be made out of ABS.
The pipes are usually made of PVC. Several other components are still often made of ABS.
In my experience, household drain pipes are usually made out of PVC.
True. I corrected the statement.
I mean, PVC pipes are even more vulnerable to acetone than ABS ones, so I would’ve made a different correction (broadening the statement rather than narrowing it).
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