Basically you are proving that hydrocarbons like limonene (about 60-70% in lemon oil) are good organic solvents and like all good organic solvents they easily dissolve styrofoam. Gasoline, turpentine, kerosone, diesel fuel and nail polish remover will all do the same thing, so what?

2019年3月6日 · Essential oils such as Lemon exemplify many characteristics of a good organic solvent, in that it is volatile, contains constituents made of carbon and it can eat through styrofoam as many have demonstrated. Despite what many may think, an essential oils ability to dissolve matter doesn't indicate its ability to detoxify when ingested.

2020年12月14日 · Here's what happens when you mix styrofoam and Young Living's Lemon Vitality essential oil – it eats straight through the cup! DO NOT USE STYROFOAM OR PLASTI...

2022年11月6日 · Lemon juice does nothing to styrofoam. Lemon oil dissolves the cup, and the mucous membranes in your body.

2020年10月26日 · Limonene and acetone do dissolve polystyrene. Time to get it dissolved should depends on the batch as well as the form (foam, grains, pellets...). Foot note: After squeezing lemon into tea in a Styrofoam cup, one's hands stick to the cup as the limonene, among other "essential oils", dissolves the polystyrene. Know someone who can answer?

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2015年10月2日 · When ever I put a lemon wedge on my styrofoam to-go box, it always starts eating away where the peel is at. I think the oils release from the peel when it is squeezed or crushed must be really acidic. Just keep your oils in a glass, not metal, container.

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Many essential oils have compounds in them that dissolve some plastics. For example, Polystyrene (plastic number 6) is easily dissolved by d-limonene in Lemon oil. Lemon oil disrupts the van der Waals forces, causing the polystyrene chains to break apart from one another.

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