cleaning keyboards in the dishwasher - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Jan 2006

On Jan 9 2006, 12:32, der Mouse wrote:

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  Sand, no, but silicon dioxide, quite possibly.  (Not
all silicon
 dioxide is sand.)  In sufficiently fine particles, it won't hurt
 anything - consider that polishing agents are basically just abrasives
...
  on a very fine scale. 
Different sort of polishing, though.  You're thinking of things like
jeweller's rouge, metal polish, etc.  The small amount of SiO2 that
could be included in a normal dose of dishwasher powder would be pretty
pointless, I'm sure.

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  > Detergent, on the other hand, does not react with
oils, it works like
...
   soap to mix
with free oily substances and water. 
 I've heard that that's not actually true, that detergents actually
 cleave fats and oils, digesting them, if you will - that that's the
 difference between detergents and soaps, in fact.  But that was afrom a
...
  relatively non-authoritative source; anyone here
actually know the
 chemistry of detergents and how they differ from soaps? 
I was oversimplifiying, I admit; there is a difference, yes.  It's not
an area I could claim to be a real expert on, though.

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