Bought some acetone yesterday

What ever you do...do not pour the solvent into your sink, garbage disposal system or drain pipes that are PVC...



RickieB

 

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This is preservation.

 

RickieB,

OMG!!! I live in the country and have been dumping it down the drain. What problem am I creating????

 

Well...it isn't acetone but it is ammonia and vinegar. The length of dip deponds on the amount of "green" stuff. Maybe 30 minutes to 1 hour. More if heavy. Man!!!...I got the administrator on my case!!!

 

http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article616.chtml

 

Vinegar contains approximately 4% Acetic Acid but also contains numerous other incrediants. Same with your Ammonia products. I always attempt to warn people that something that might work for some may have dagerous or horrible results by others due to differences in actual products, invironment, length of immersions, etc. Note that Some of these products will leave a substance on the coins that will not be noticed for the present but in later times will horribly ruin the coins unless extreame rinses are performed in distilled water.
One primary thing to remember when using Acetone, nail polish remover, Ammonia, etc is your eyes, nose and mouth. Coins can be replaced or just thrown into a bank but your body parts are not usually so easily corrected.

 

I will be getting the distilled water right away. I have heard of using a good olive oil. What do you think about that? How do you apply and what purpose would it be used for?

Yea, the ammonia is REALLY noxious!!! I always have a fan going and the window open and even then it gets bad. I need an outside sink!

 

One of my neighbors, elderlly lady, was washing her floors with a fairly strong solution of Ammonia. Spent two days in the hospital. Elderly so she forgot to open the windows.
As to Olive Oils on coins. DON'T DO IT. So many claim silly things like this since they are not thier coins. many people just repeat what someone else stated similar to a parrot without any true knowledge of experience. Note that OLIVE OIL is still an oil and will leave a coating on the coins. Again it would take something like Acetone to remove this and then distilled water to clense them again. Olive Oils are not always the same. Olive Oil is produced in manufacturing plants and again, different organizations have different processes and not something that is publicized due to a propriatary situation so others can not copy thier product. And this is one really big reason to avoid statements based on either no true experience or the use of just one such product. If you listen to such unfounded stories and you ruin your coins, remember they are YOUR coins and all that anyone would say that suggested something is OOPPS, sorry. And maybe not even that. YOUR coins so be carefull.

 

When I read threads like this one, it leaves the impression that so many people have so many ideas about so many different methods to "safely" clean coins that a very large percentage of coins must have been cleaned in some manner at some time during their lives.

 

Exactly and I'm sure one of the guilty individuals. As a Chem teacher in a Juniour College not long ago I used coins as experimentations for the classes. Coins in the past have been dipped or dissolved in practically every Acid at our disposal. Coins have been attempted to be cleaned as a household experiment with anything found around a house. Such items were Lemon Juices, Orange juices, Tomato sauces and juices, Vinegar, common table salt, pepers, tap water, battery acids and on and on and on. I always stressed not to use any coins that may be valuable but that is sort of like saying to someone under age not to drink Alcohol. In addtion to that I would expect that probably 90% of every chem class student on Earthy has done something to coins. And exactly what is pending on what chemicals are available.
Why it is absolutely fantastic what a dissolved Copper Cent in Sulfuric Acid produces. After it is dissolved the Blue/Green solution is filtered and left to evaporate at a controled rate and produces a fantastic crustal.

 

My last post I was unble to edit so that word at the end should have been crystal.