Sonny
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BTW, be careful handling acetone and all the volatile solvents like xylene, toluene etc. Wear nitrile gloves, don't breathe fumes.
I have used acetone for many years as a fuel additive, multi purpose cleaner, you name it. Great, useful stuff.
I was always careless about getting it on my hands and clothing. What's to worry, it evaporates so fast and completely? Then 5 years ago I contracted lymphoma, a killer blood cancer. After hellish treatments the docs beat it back and I live on. But I learned that the only clear statistical correlation as far as a cause is occupational exposure to volatile solvents and certain pesticides. They apparently have their wonderful solvent effect on DNA strands as well, and human skin and lung tissue are a transparent barrier to the light, hot molecule -- it goes right thru the skin and lung tissue into the bloodstream.
So, use it, but don't get any on ya and don't breathe it. 'Cause lymphoma sucks, and scares the bejesus out of you even if it doesn't kill you, and is blindingly expensive and unpleasant to treat.
Just a heads up to whom it may concern.
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