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Want to know if one chemical reacts with another?

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Du57mi73

Du57mi73

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I wanted to post this in the FAQ section, but for some reason I can't post there. I found this site and I thought it might really help to be stickied here or the faq section. Feel free to move the thread.

Chemical Compatibility Database from Cole-Parmer

This website allows you to select two chemicals and shows their reactivity to each other. Ill use what just happened as an example.. Someone had asked if it was okay to soak their copper scrubber from their machine in naptha to clean it. So on the website you put in copper, and then naphtha. The result is Excellent, which means there is no reactivity between the two substances. Hope that helps some people!
 
started perusing this...there are a few strange things that make me question it as a whole, the big example that stands out is that grape juice has rating of D = severe effect...how could it be that grape juice has a sever reaction with rubber?
 
mrwiggle said:
started perusing this...there are a few strange things that make me question it as a whole, the big example that stands out is that grape juice has rating of D = severe effect...how could it be that grape juice has a sever reaction with rubber?
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Grape juice has a wide variety of organic acids that could potentially react with rubber. I don't know exactly what severe means, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could dissolve rubber in grape juice given enough time.

But this would depend on the type of rubber. There are different things that are referred to as rubber. I wouldn't be surprised if silicone rubber doesn't react with grape juice but that a natural latex rubber might react to it.
 
Untm said:
Maybe I should step in and make a appearance here, haha.
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Continue UNTM?

As others said there are acids involved, and certain plastics can't even handle the weakest of them, and the longer they sit the more damage to the container will be done, on top of that, the plastic that's being damaged is potentially contaminating your substance inside so think about that wisely
 
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