One last question regarding PVC?
Early_Milled_Latin_America
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I tend to work around my home and touch PVC pipes and other PVC material during the day. I just wash my hands with soap after I am done before looking at my coins. Can you transfer PVC to coins with your hands or is that not a possibility? I do not mean having green slime or anything like that on my hands. Or does a coin actually have to be in contact directly with the PVC material.
Same when I am on my computer. Computer mouses have PVC material in them (many do) and I just wash my hands with soap before touching any coins. Although my computer mouse is made in the USA not China so maybe there is no PVC material.
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I am guessing that PVC is not transferred this way to coins. Figured I would ask anyways just in case I am wrong.
No, not unless the PVC pipes are leaching plasticizer. If they are leaching anything liquid or sticky then yes, you could transfer PVC related corrosion problems to your coins.
Here’s google ai to get you started if you want to research more to understand PVC plasticizers and leaching which is what happens if you store coins in plasticized PVC flips.
Mr_Spud
I guess it is always best to look our coins over every 3-4 months to make sure all is OK.
PVC pipes are inert. You could store your coins in PVC pipes
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What about using a computer mouse (read some parts of it are PVC) hours per day when your hand becomes humid? Is washing them with soap and water enough?
Hard PVC is inert and harmless unless it is decomposing.
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Makes sens now much appreciated. So the issue is the plasticizer.
For those curious some computer mouses are made without any PVC plastic. Seems the one I own is one of them. There are other companies as well (made in the USA and Netherlands for example).