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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;adelv_unegv, post: 236835, member: 7247&quot;]Short answer: no.&nbsp; It&#039;s not PVC or made from PVC. -- STRIKE that.&nbsp; Rephrase.&nbsp; Pliofilm is made *from* rubber and PVC is made *from* something else.&nbsp; *HOW* it&#039;s made is a different matter altogether.&nbsp; There are other things such as &quot;plasticizers&quot; and I don&#039;t know what they are or what they&#039;re made from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long answer: um, read this cuz I don&#039;t know chemistry. <a href="http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Plastic-Wrap.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Plastic-Wrap.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Plastic-Wrap.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What worries me now is that Pliofilm is made from rubber.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve ever had a rubberband break and land on a silver bar in your safe you already know why I say that.&nbsp; It pits the bar and makes it turn black.&nbsp; However, in this day and age, &quot;rubberbands&quot; may not be made from rubber.&nbsp; Or maybe rubberbands have a plasticizer or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, pliofilm has been used with coins (actually touching the coin) and it doesn&#039;t seem to affect it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully a chemist will happen along (JustCarl? MrBrooklyn?) and explain this to folks like me who don&#039;t speak chemistry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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