Agraffe Polishing

[Dave Nereson]

----- 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