Furniture polishing

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Problem 27.1 Carnauba wax, used in floor and furniture polishes, contains an ester of a C32 straight-chain alcohol with a C20 straight-chain carboxylic acid. Draw its structure. 

Dustblock formula actually repels dust. Cleaning, dusting, and polishing are all completed in seconds. You ve heard the claims of various furniture polishes. Is there actually a chemical basis to dusting ... 

Furniture polishes are used to dust, clean, shine, and protect wood surfaces. The ingredients within the polish formulation confer these favorable attributes. In particular, to act as a dust repellent, the polish contains antistatic ingredients, that is, hydrocarbon substances that are not prone to static electricity and therefore do not attract dust. Silicone oil 1,2 and lemon oil are typical antistatic ingredients. 

Boyle-Midway — Old English Lemon Cream Furniture Polish, 1865, Material Safety Datasheet. http //www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/ jsmith/MSDS/OLD%20ENGLISH%20 LEMON%20CREAM%20FURNITURE%20POLISH.htm... 

GiammonaST. 1967. Effects of furniture polish on pulmonary surfactant. Am J Dis Child 113 658-663. 

Griffin JW. 1954. Hydrocarbon pneumonia following furniture polish ingestion. J Pediatr 45 13-26. 

HuxtableKA. 1964. Experimental furniture polish pneumonia in rats. Pediatrics 34 228-235. 

Ring R, Nelson JD. 1966. Hydrocarbon pneumonitis in rats Comparison of mineral seal oil, furniture polish, and kerosene toxicides with an evaluation of gastric lavage. Arch Environ Health 13(6) 749-752. 

Uses. Manufacture of lacquers, artificial leather, photographic film, artificial glass, celluloid, artificial silk, and furniture polish... 

Products with a high percentage of solvents, such as oil-based paints, paint removers, fuels, lighter fluids, furniture polishes, and some pesticides can cause potentially fatal pneumonia if aspirated into the lungs as a result of accidental ingestion. If used in an unventilated space, they can also cause symptoms of acute intoxication, including dizziness, nausea, and in some cases nerve damage or other effects. 

Furniture polish Trimethylpentane, dimethylhexane, trimethylhexane, trimethylheptane, ethylbenzene, limonene... 

Aerosol Furniture Polish (Carbon Dioxide Propel 1 anti... 

Modem furniture polishes are designed for a wide variety of surfaces, eg, plastics, metals, and synthetic and natural resin coatings. Furniture polishes impart shine and provide protection from abrasion, marring, and spills. The formulations clean well in many cases. In common with most other polishes, furniture polishes are characterized by ease and speed of application and of buffing, and by either the absence of objectionable odors or the addition of pleasing ones. 

Chemical modification of the wax can improve smear resistance (5). Silicones, which do not harm furniture finishes (6), are incorporated as film-forming ingredients in furniture polishes. The lubricant properties of silicones improve ease of application of the polish and removal of insoluble soil particles. In addition, silicones make dry films easier to buff and more water-repellent, and provide depth of gloss, ie, ability to reflect a coherent image as a result of a high refractive index (7). Wax-free polishes, which have silicones as the only film former, can be formulated to deliver smear resistance (8). Another type of film former commonly used in oil-base furniture polishes is a mineral or vegetable oil, eg, linseed oil. 

The different types of furniture polishes include liquid or paste solvent waxes, dear oil polishes, emulsion oil polishes, emulsion wax polishes, and aerosol or spray polishes (3). Nonwoven wipes impregnated with polish ingredients have been targeted at consumers who do not wish to expend the time to dust before polishing (11). Compilations of representative formulas are given in References 3, 4, 12, and 13. Paste waxes contain ca 25 wt % wax, the remainder being solvent. Clear oil polishes contain 10—15 wt % oil and a small amount of wax, the rest being solvent. Aerosol or spray products may contain 2—5 wt % of a silicone polymer, 1—3 wt % wax, 0—30 wt % hydrocarbon solvent, and ca 1 wt % emulsifier. The remainder is water. 

Evaluations of furniture polish application properties, gloss, uniformity, film clarity, smear and mar resistance, film healing, buffability, cleaning, water spotting, gloss retention, and dust attraction are all described in ASTM D3751-79. Federal Specification P-P553B (1977) indudes some standard test methods for the evaluation of liquid furniture polishes. 

According to U.S. Census Data, the value of polishing preparations and related products shipped from U.S. factories in 1987 was 798 million in factory sales, a 23% increase from 1982 (67). These sales included 155.3 million in furniture polish, 245.2 million in floor polish, 185.1 million in automotive polish, 81.1 million in metal polish, and 42.8 million in shoe polish. Industry estimates for retail sales as of 1994 involving furniture polish were that this category remained flat at 197 million (68). Retail shoe polish sales remained constant at 200 million household floor polish sales declined about 7% in 1993, whereas institutional floor wax and polish sales have grown at an annual rate of 2—2.5% to 370 million (69). In 1992 and 1993, automotive polish sales increased about 40% a year with the advent of colored car polishes to 240 million, but were flat in 1994. 

The leading manufacturers in the polish categories are S. C. Johnson Son, Inc., Reckitt Coleman, Sara Lee, Scotts Liquid Gold, Turde Wax, and Alberto Culver for furniture polishes S. C. Johnson Son, Inc. and L F Products for household door polishes S. C. Johnson Son, Inc., Pioneer-Eclipse, Spartan Chemical, Hillyard Chemical Co., and Butcher Co. for industrial and institutional door polishes Turde Wax, Armor All, First Brands, Kit Products of Northern Labs, Meguiies, Blue Coral, and Nu-Finish for automotive polishes and Kiwi for shoe polishes (68—72). 

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