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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 8136510, member: 33176&quot;]no no no no no no no</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, Virginia...uh...Doug, the softening agent DOES leak out of the flip in liquid form!&nbsp; The gas from the decomposition is HCl (hydrogen chloride) which, when dissolved in water we call hydrochloric acid.&nbsp; Gases really don&#039;t &quot;settle&quot; on anything, they diffuse all over the place unless something dissolves them and holds them in one place.&nbsp; In this case the plasticizer (dioctyl phthalate) does exude out of old, decaying plasticized PVC.&nbsp; If the coin has slime on it (plasticizer) the HCl gas can go into the plasticizer and be held against the coin, causing it (the coin) to decompose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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