On 14 Jun 1996, Kristofor Schuett wrote:
> I have seen in our campus Environmental Health and Safety (the Haz Mat
> folks here at OSU) guidelines that acetone can be used to neutralize PCBs
> (is this actually true?) Would acetone have the same effect on other
> lipophilic polychlorinated compounds such as dioxins? Any help would be
> appreciated.
>> Kris Schuett
> Dept. of Zoology
> Ohio State University
>schuett.1 at osu.edu>I think you probably mean decontaminate (not the same as neutralize).
Decontamination can be done with a number of solvents (all it takes is a
solvent in which the contaminant is soluble).
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