----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Agraffe Polishing > David, > > At 09:33 AM 9/23/04, you wrote: > >Warning: Use of this product will expose you to benzene which is known to > >cause cancer and to toluol which is known to cause birth defects or other > >reproductive harm. > > What is "toluol"? > > Avery > tolu, or tolu balsam -- [Spanish, from the seaport town of Santiago, Colombia]: Balsam of Tolu toluate -- a salt or ester of any of the toluic acids toluene -- [tolu + benzene]: A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, obtained chiefly from coke-oven vapors and by distillation of coal tar . It is used in the manufacture of dyes and other compounds. toluic -- pertaining to or designating any of four isomeric acids, carboxyl derivatives of toluene. toluol ["tall, you-all"] -- [tolu + benzol] -- toluene, especially in crude commercial form. from Webster's Collegiate Dictionary via David Nereson, RPT, Denver
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