Hydrochloric acid is widely used as a cleaning agent on steel and cement products.
Conservation officials said that their investigation showed that the tenant, Munsey Cleaners, had been dumping perc, used as a cleaning solvent, in the basement for years.
MacDonald says: "One of the most common complaints about accessible loos is that they're often used as a cleaning cupboard with hoovers, buckets etc – with a little education and staff training that's very easy to fix".
Borax, an alkaline compound that is mainly used as a cleaning agent and in the manufacture of enamel and glass, is added to caviar in minute amounts: 500 parts per million.
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies have shown that acetone, when used as a cleaning agent for copper in the presence of ambient light and water vapor, slowly reacts to form acetic acid.
In electronic manufacturing, however, these chemicals are used as a cleaning agent because of how quickly and easily they evaporate.
Chlorine is a dual-use substance that can be used as a cleaning agent, and is only illegal under international law when employed directly as a weapon.
It didn't take authorities long to confirm what many convention attendees had intuitively suspected: The intense fumes they'd smelled were the result of chlorine, the oxidizing chemical commonly used as a cleaning agent in swimming pools.
Context B consisted of plastic flooring covered with fresh bedding, altered geometry and spatial cues (red and black tape) relative to context A, four additional cue lights illuminated continuously, and 1% ammonium hydroxide solution used as a cleaning agent.
