Sex enhancer??? I used a lot of ether (and many other nasty organic solvents like ethyl acetate, tetrahydrofurane, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile....) during my PhD ... now I can explain those weird and crazy parties on campus after lab work...... ;-)
Be careful with solvents; most of them are absorbed through inhalation or skin, and have a target organ as they are metabolised by the organism and byproducts are generated for elimination through kidney, liver, etc. And most ara flammable and usually glue or varnish solvents.
I do not think you need to use things such as ether or nitro solvents to remove fingerskin grease, usually with liquid rosin or in some extreme cases ethanol from the pharmacy should be enough. The water content in pharmacy ethanol is fine, it gets evaporated quickly and will not damage glue joints or varnish unless used with little care and in massive quantities. A few drops in a drag or cotton ball is enough. This works fine for me at least.
And beware of plrt'ng your wheel!!
2006/6/7, Tim Sesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The confusion probably arises because both can be used
On the skin: ether is used to remove the gunge left by
Zinc oxide plaster, but you won't shift it with alcohol.
Ethyl alcohol - rubbing alcohol - is used for bedsores
And for spiking the fruit cup at junior doctors' parties
(I remember using it to degrease my rosy cheeks - (ie my face!)
as a teenager - I think it worked. sorry to get squidgy.
You need to look up a 'solvents' table (www) to see what
Dissolves what. Ether is highly flammable and even explosive,
Which is one reason it was dropped as an anaesthetic
(another was that some patients stopped breathing - CNS
depressant- and died, while others exploded on the
operating table when they struck up the newfangled
electric cautery kit).
I could once (1950s) to buy it from the pharmacist as part of the
mix for model aircraft diesel engines - but the chemist
wanted to know why I needed it. You'd probably get a 3am
visit from the antiterrorist squad if you tried it nowadays..
I'm told it's one of those sex enhancers like amyl acetate -
don't try this at home, folks.
The trouble is also, if you're not very very careful,
You're going to damage your lovely French polish.
Tim
