@gunrunnerjohn posted:You could always try carbon tetrachloride, some seriously nasty stuff!
Carbon tet is listed as a carcinogen by the government. Was used by the dry cleaning industry for many years, seeps into the soil and is now considered a hazardous waste material. My daughter works for an environmental company and every time she has to take soil samples from an old dry cleaners she finds it.
50 years ago when I was in college, we used carbon tetrachloride as a solvent in running NMRI testing in chemistry lab, no hydrogen atoms to interfere with the chemical.
