Hi,
Found this old bottle of liquid with no label, it smells a bit like my wife's nail polish remover? So could be Acetone at a guess? How does one check these things (apart from drinking it)?
Doesn't quite smell the same as the Diggers Metho next to it, but maybe it could be???
Tried Google Lens search, couldn't find anything.
TIA
Poison, poison, tasty fish!
Poisson for the escargot on the salade🤔
Is it flammable?
I've not checked if it's flammable. Aren't a lot of these sort of liquids flammable?
One man’s fish is another man’s poisson.
another bottle of methylated spirits
I think you are right. I recollect buying methylated spirits in a bottle exactly like that one. Of course that doesn't preclude something else in the same type of bottle.
Thanks, yes it is possible. I didn't want to take a huge whiff of both for obvious reasons, so I can't rule it out.
Not too much harm if it's an well ventilated area. Methylated spirits are also flammable as another way to check.
Btw, hope you're working on your mental health. I vaguely recall a post that might have been from you.
@Caped Baldy: Yep that was me, cheers.
I did go back to the GP for a blood test and had another session with the psychologist. Need to book some follow-up sessions.
Methylated spirits are also flammable
as another way to check.
Alcohol burns clear and can be dangerous. Lots of chemicals are flammable so it didn't really solve any mysterys.
Shellite?? Try it out in a Zippo or other refillable lighter
Acetone is commonly used a nail polish remover so if it smells like that it's probably acetone.
Acetone will discolour and degrade a PET bottle so it's sold in bottles made from a more inert plastic. E.g. polyethylene which is translucent.
I would not rely on the style or shape of the bottle for identification of chemicals.
It has a number 2 on it, which is apparently HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene)
Yeah, I know it was a long shot, just wondered if the green lid meant anything in terms of old school colour coding or someone had the same bottle with the label still on it…
As a counter example, consider that there are at least 10 other clear, colourless liquids sold at Bunnings in the same bottle and same coloured lid as your Diggers methylated spirits. You also need to consider that the liquid has been someone has replaced the original contents.
Shellite, mineral turpentine, kerosene and white spirits are all derived from petroleum and have different odours, but to my nose, none have the characteristic nail polish remover like acetone.
If you are curious, next time you are at Bunnings discretely open a few differnet bottles and have a whiff.
Metho
Acetone <—- I bet its that
ISO P
all found in bunnings.
I do not think it is Acetone as Acetone is not supplied in that style of bottle and putting Acetone in that style of bottle for storage seems OTT. But either way it is poison and I would not smell, eat or put it on your skin until you exactly know what it is.
Let me tell you a (true) story.
Summer had just returned, and I needed to get the lawn growing. I looked in the shed and there was a lawn fertiliser container, half full. So I sprayed it on the front and back lawns. Within days both were dead. Then I remembered. A while previously I had some herbicide left over, so I'd put it in an empty fertiliser bottle. I'm sure I'd taken the fertiliser label off, and stuck on a hand-written one saying it was herbicide, but it must have fallen off. So now if it doesn't say what it is, I don't assume.
Thanks for sharing.
I think.
Could be turpentine.
I don't have a turps to smell and compare, but from memory I thought that has more of a distinct petrol like smell?
It smells lot different from petrol. It smells more like a cross between kerosene and metho for want a of a better description.
I need to buy some turps, Bunnings are sold out!?
+1 for turps
Looks to me to be a generic bottle shape - so could be anything.
When sniffing volatile products you shouldn’t stick your nose over the opening and inhale a gutfull. Use your hand to waft the fumes toward your nose. Giving the bottle a light squeeze should get enough fumes out (then waft it) to smell it properly.
Do they smell the same? If yes, metho. If no, something else.
They smell similar to me, but not exactly the same. I used it to clean some shellac based primer off a painting tray and it worked a treat, so I'm going to assume metho. đź‘Ť
Tip a litttle of each into a flame proof otter cap or similar. Be outdoors. Apply a flame to both and see if it does the same thing. If not, then not metho
Poison?