The Chemistry Behind Dry Cleaning

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October 8, 2014

 

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An Oxford Classicist by the name of C.M. Bowra had demonstrated that the profession known as “dry cleaner” could be found in the clay tablets of the civilization. (Garfield, 218) Thus, Garfield says, this early Greek civilization may have used grease-absorbent materials as solvents to remove dirt from garments...
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Now, to this day, dry cleaning is done with solvents that are not necessarily “dry” in the sense that one usually understands it, as in “a dry desert,” but rather, solvents are dry in that they do not need water to be effective. In other words, these solvents used today are non-aqueous. In Drycleaning: Technology and Theory, authors Martin and Fulton define dry cleaning as “the cleansing of textiles in an organic solvent...
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