Define "Cleaning."

Cleaning is a chemical or mechanical operation on an item seeking to remove any foreign material in order to restore it as close as possible to its original state.

I like it as it is shorter. More suggestions?

 

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Isn't that enough?

 

So does the crud on the carrots - muddy the water, that is. But original condition creates problems with babies, etc. "They all look like Winston Churchill dipped in 40 weight."

 

"Cleaning"-working too much to remove crud from the wrong places.

 

The act of removing debris, dirt, or simply trying to restore something to its original looks.

 

Cleaning per your verbal constraints cannot be defined relative to the "coin world", and perhaps other collectibles, relative to other generally accepted applications of cleaning.

Get over here and CLEAN my house and I might buy you a pizza. Clean my coin means it gets a details grade or body bagged, I going to get madder at you when I realize your wonderful house cleaning had you intentionally hiding my ball bat.

 

It is the designation used often on labels for problem coins. "Cleaned" or even "Harshly Cleaned" are commonly seen on problem labels and who wants filthy, unsanitary coins? The grading collective chose the word in question and accepts it as such.

There is zero doubt that the term "cleaned" with respect to coins is pejorative and a negative.

 

In mathematical terms, "cleaned"with respect to coins equals the square root of negative cleaned.

This proves my indisputable theory of cointivity.

 

There are residual effects. Tremors, pain, a stammer, a few other things. But it's easy to not stammer in writing. Clean spelling before a review and edit is tougher.

 

Is that another carrot reference?

 

94 covers a lot of turf.

 

Are those anything like dirt rockets?

 

Cleaning - some thing my wife forgot to do ?

 

I conserve coins, I don't clean them. "Cleaning" can be defined as what everybody else does to coins.

 

Dear Moderator,
Why is Mr. Bellman allowed to make such comments where he insults us all such as the reference "I have something approaching zero interest in interacting with the "common man". Is he so high and mighty. Are we not all created equal. Is he Godly or of superior being, maybe he is of the "Aryan race". I am chastised for responding to him, please forgive me. I did not know he was so superior.

 

And I thought this was a friendly forum.

 

When those of you who slept through advanced mathematics realize the square root of a negative equals "j", the discussion is over and the question has been answered.