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Title: Acetone sucks in PET bottle
Post by: mowsala on November 19, 2009, 04:57:46 PM

Hi all,
I quite recently bought a bottle of acetone, but punctured the LDPE bottle it came in while unwrapping it. So I transferred it to a clear PET bottle, and now I find that whenever I do it up tightly, within a few days all the air has gone and the bottle sucked in, without shaking it. Has the air dissolved in it or what?

Title: Re: Acetone sucks in PET bottle
Post by: doc30 on December 07, 2009, 09:37:20 AM

You need to get it out of that bottle and into one that's chemically compatible with acetone. Eventually, the PET bottle will crack and you will ahve a mess to clean up.

Title: Re: Acetone sucks in PET bottle
Post by: ASAmoto on December 27, 2009, 10:38:20 PM

Acetone is easy to volatile!