He suspected that they might contain acetone, which is prone to yield unfortunate ... to its Safety Data Sheet contains only hydrocarbons like alkanes, butane, and propane. It did a fine job ...

Instead of acetone, the guys at protoparadigm are using tetrahydrofuran, or THF, as a solvent for PLA. Other PLA solvents aren’t friendly to living organisms or are somewhat hard to obtain.

We are willing to consider all solvents for this program. Currently, methanol, ethanol and acetone are distilled on campus. If your lab generates other solvent waste, contact EH&S to see if they may ...