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Zunimassa, 06.02.2013 13:33

Recently, more and more often the joy of receiving a long-awaited parcel with beetles is overshadowed by the sharp smell of mothballs that hits the nose and then haunts for a long time.
While you sort out the package in the throat starts to tickle.
In addition, it is deposited in adipose tissues and is an excellent carcinogen!
If the smell of rotten beetles can still be eroded, then mothballs are more difficult.
I usually get rid of such material, but sometimes I feel sorry for the rather rare copies that I got with great difficulty. wall.gif
What to do with them? mount in boxes with normal hand does not rise, then everything stinks, along with the box and you will have to sniff mothballs every time you open the box.
I asked chemists how to remove naphthalene, advised to ventilate in the sun or alternatively put it in a box with paraffin for a long time, paraffin should absorb naphthalene.
Who can say anything about this.

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11.02.2013 22:37, vasiliy-feoktistov

 
What to do with them?

In all seriousness wink.gif......... We should be happy that the material is well etched from pests: it is better to let it stink of mothballs than to be subsequently devoured by leatherworms or some other evil spirits. The smell of poison is unavoidable in our business: selyavi smile.gif.

This post was edited by vasiliy-feoktistov - 11.02.2013 22: 37

12.02.2013 13:03, Coelioxys

Zunimassa
If you want to find out in a real way what the material in mothballs is, I advise you to look into the boxes stored in the Moscow State University Pet Museum.
After that you can smear yourself with paraffin and go out into the sun wink.gif

12.02.2013 14:45, Yakovlev

Most museums don't have chemistry (or stink) - Munich, Berlin, Leiden, Witt Museum. By the way, there is no horror in Zina either. Very good. The scariest places I've been are Amsterdam, Tervuren, and the Tokyo Herbarium. This is Kopets. Even the sun won't help there. This is hell.

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