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In the Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline
Post Subject: Enyymes do not clean thingsPosted by drdna on: 11/14/2009
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Of course enzymes are organic catalysts. They accelerate naturally occurring chemical reactions. In and of themselves they do not remove anything from the record; only break it up to allow other detergents etc. to separate the grime from the record in the presence of a solvent. In fact likely one would need a minimum of two solvents, one relatively polar (like water) and one more nonpolar to get all the types of crud, broadly classed as ionic and nonionic. So just keep that in mind.
I think if one views this more as a basic organic chemical extraction in which one is trying to remove everything except vinyl, it becomes easier to conceptualize.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site