On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:29:33 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:39:05 -0700, Steve Ackman
17:05:06 -0800, Larry Jaques, wrote:

I see that you dusted the mothballs off your book.

If I _dusted_ some napthalene off the book, it
probably wouldn't have been in the form of balls,
would it?

OHHH! Moth balls. Got it. ;-)
But... how on earth would moth balls have ever gotten
on the book to begin with?

Yeah, yeah, I know. Damn literalists.

sigh You use paradichlorobenzene mothballs for books.

Sigh yourself.

"Naphthalene, also known as naphthalin, bicyclo[4.4.0]deca-1,3,5,7,9-pentene
or antimite is a crystalline, aromatic, white, solid hydrocarbon with
formula C10H8 and the structure of two fused benzene rings. It is best
known as the traditional, primary ingredient of mothballs."
^^^^^^^^^^ - emphasis mine
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphthalene

But in HS. chem. class, we did experiments with:

"1,4-Dichlorobenzene (para-dichlorobenzene, p-DCB, PDB) is an organic
compound with the formula C6H4Cl2. This colorless solid has a strong odor.
It consists of two chlorine atoms substituted at opposing sites on a
benzene ring. p-DCB is used a pesticide and a deodorant, most familiarly in
mothballs in which it is a replacement for the more traditional
naphthalene.[1]"
^^^^^^^^^^^ - emphasis mine
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,4-Dichlorobenzene

Hope This Helps!

Didn't. "Clothes moths can be a real problem in clothes made from
natural fibers (especially wool). There are two different types of
moth balls used to combat the moths. In one type, the main ingredient
is naphthalene, and in the other it is paradichlorobenzene."
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/question210.htm

AND, ya techie SOB, you missed the hoomer of it all.

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