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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2855982, member: 112&quot;]The main reason that people dispute or argue about what I say about acetone and copper is that they have not seen it happen. In other words they may have rinsed plenty of copper coins in acetone and never seen one turn weird colors later on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well I get that, but there&#039;s a long, long list of things that a whole lot of people have never seen - but that does not mean they don&#039;t or can&#039;t happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Others will say that science says it can&#039;t or shouldn&#039;t happen. And yeah, I get that too, but there is also a long, long list of things that have and do happen that science says cannot or should not happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still others will say that the weird colors are not caused by the acetone itself but something else that is on the coin. Well OK, maybe they&#039;re right, maybe it is. But so what ? The point is - it happens ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe there is something on certain coins, something that nobody can see, identify, or even have any idea that it is there. I&#039;ve certainly never been able to see anything. Something that for whatever unknown reason when it is on a copper coin and that coin is exposed to acetone causes the coin to later turn weird colors. But it happens often enough to matter. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that is the point of the warning. That, and the fact that xylene does not react this way, xylene does not cause copper coins to sometimes turn weird colors. And xylene will safely remove just about anything that acetone will. So if you have copper coins that you think have something on them that acetone will remove, instead of using acetone, use xylene and simply remove the element of chance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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