

| 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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