In message <[email protected]>, dated Tue,
26 Mar 2013, Brian Oconnell <[email protected]> writes:
I am not an organic chemist. Perhaps acetone or methylcyclohexane would
be suitable alternate. Heptane is considered close, but do not know if
easily sourced.
NO! Acetone will dissolve many moulding materials. Methylcyclohexane is
also a solvent, and quite different from n-hexane, except that it is
just about as unhealthy. But in this application, the quantities are
small and very infrequently used.
Also, as hexane is on the U.S. and Canada list of really bad
carcinogenic stuff, and TC108 needs to find something else that is a
reasonably available equivalent.
There seems to be conflicting information about its carcinogenicity, but
on-line MSDS do not confirm it. An example is:
CARCINOGEN STATUS:
OSHA: N
NTP: N
IARC: N
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