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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Been a while since I was in a lab (I was mainly concerned with squishy, squidgy things like microbes, so not quite OChem either) but, this looks accurate to me with a minor bit of pedantry that I had to validate before mentioning. BPA is not actually a plasticizer but a monomer/co-monomer (it does frequently get incorrectly labeled as a plasticizer in retail products). Notably in polycarbonate, which is something like 90% BPA by mass.

A big issue with is the incomplete reaction of monomers, leading to things like room-temp leeching of unreacted BPA in polycarbonate (so glad that I took a Nalgene with me everywhere for years when I was younger /s).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Thanks! Edited to account for "and other additives"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

You misspelled "a minor bit of pedantry". Sorry. It had to be done.