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Subject:Re: removing Tar from carpet
From:Jeff Palmer
Date:Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:09:20 -0400

And my fridge won't even make ice :(

Jeff

>I had to remove tar from my carpet a few months ago.  I just
happen to
>have a large supply of liquid nitrogen at my disposal- so i
used it.  It
>worked OK.  The big globs quickly froze and were picked off,
but the small
>stuff that was in the fibers required some organic solvents. I
probably
>used methanol (just because we have oodles of MeOH), but i'd
speculate
>Acetone or possibly methlene choloride would work too.
>
>If you are in the greater palouse area and need some LN2 to
remove some
>tar, just email....
>Cheers!
>Matthew
>ps, LN2 is about -200degreesC or 77K
>
>Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
>Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
>University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>

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