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A safer solvent for organic chemistry labs

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It’s also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise designed to teach them how to isolate compounds in a mixture.

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