Does White Spirit Evaporate

Alan if you look it up under wikipedia mineral spirit white spirit its a petroleum distillate and under toxicity seems like it would be ok well after evaporation however why even take chances when you could use a shop vac to clean up dust and a food grade alcohol for non grain raising check of your sanding or better lighting or light spray of water before a finefinal sanding.

Does white spirit evaporate. So far the ronsonol is doing much better. A friend of mine works for the environment agency and they have a neat solution a bucket of sand. Otherwise you need some sort of dry cleaning fluid ie solvent based which i think you can get in supermarket or get them dry cleaned which would do it but expensive. Others with higher flash points and lower volatility are safer but not entirely safe.

Some have a flash point of 20300c extreme care is needed using it. Its not a great solvent though. There are also terms for specific kinds of mineral spirits including stoddard solvent and solvent naphtha petroleum. White spirit uk or mineral spirits us canada also known as mineral turpentine aunz turpentine substitute and petroleum spirits is a petroleum derived clear liquid used as a common organic solvent in painting.

White spirit chain cleaning question. If you use white spirit to clean a chain is it ok to just allow the chain to dry and the solvent evaporate or is it best to wash off the white spirit and then allow the chain to dry. White spirit is an organic compound so it does break down into harmless substances in a relatively short space of time. White spirit is a generic name for different products exactly what it means depends where in the world you live.

Just an update the white spirit did evaporate after 12 a day when its in such a small amount that theres just a little in the bottom of the jar and the crystals reformed.