chemistry
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That Viral ‘PYREX’ Brand Hack Is Horseshit, Folks
Everyone loves a good kitchen hack, and one of the most popular examples concerns glass cookware. Between Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok, there are hundreds of posts asserting that all-caps PYREX is the good stuff (aka, borosilicate glass), and all-lowercase pyrex is junk (aka, tempered soda-lime glass). If you stick to PYREX-branded products, the reasoning goes,…
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The Easiest Way to Destink Your Smelly Sink Drain
There are many things that can smell gross in your home, but a stinky sink drain is one of the worst. It lingers at the corner of your consciousness, always there, vaguely bothering you. How did it come to this, and how do you fix it There are a few common ways that your drain…
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How to Destink Your Diaper Pail (and Keep It Destunk)
If a baby is one of the sweetest, cutest, most precious things we could ever imagine taking up space in our homes, their diaper pail is the exact opposite. If you have one, I don’t need to tell you how horrifically odorous it is; you’re well aware. There are several ways to wrangle their smell…
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TikTok Is Wrong About Boiling Air Freshener Wicks
There’s a new hack floating around TikTok that suggests your wick-based air fresheners, like the kind you plug into the wall, don’t have to be tossed out when they stop working. Instead, according to some social media posts, you can boil the wicks to give your home a major scent boost. Seems like a neat…