Sorry, got busy last night & couldn't post. I was suprised, they gave actual chemical compound names & not just "super grippy fluid".

I'll post tonight. Promise.

Searched for data on the stuff in it.

Here's some things.
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N-Methyl Pyrrolidone (NMP)
 

N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone (NMP) is a powerful solvent with broad solubility for resins and high chemical and thermal stability. It is completely soluble with water at all temperatures and is soluble with most organic solvents.

Benefits/Applications

NMP, known for its low toxicity and solvent power, is rapidly becoming the product of choice for paint strippers, agricultural chemicals, and process solvent applications. As a cosolvent, NMP can improve the gloss of floor polishes. Because of its high solvency and low volatility, NMP is used in automotive and industrial cleaners with solvents like hydrocarbons, terpenes, propylene carbonate and P-Series glycol ethers. It also has application in the electronic industry as a photoresist stripper. NMP can also be a replacement for 1,1,1-tricholoroethane (111T) in demanding applications like the cleaning of metal parts. It is recyclable by distillation, readily biodegradable and essentially non-toxic to aquatic life. It is not on the Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) list of the U.S. 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

Because of its exceptional performance and relatively low toxicity, NMP is the leading substitute for methylene chloride in paint strippers, graffiti removers, and other products for consumer and industrial cleanup. NMP can be used safely and effectively in all its current applications when used with appropriate personal protective equipment.
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Here's a data sheet from BASF on NMP:

http://www.basf.com/businesses/chemicals/diols/pdfs/n-meth-p.pdf

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Butyrolactone

Definition: A hygroscopic, colorless liquid obtained by the dehydrogenation of 1,4-butanediol. It is used as a solvent for epoxy resins.

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Other than just that definition I've been unable to find anything else on Butyrolactone. There is another type, Gamma-Butyrolactone.....baaaaaad stuff.

From: http://www.inchem.org/documents/cicads/cicads/cicad35.htm

First draft prepared by Dr Bengt Ã…kesson, Department of Occupational & Environmental Health, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-Organization
Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals.

World Health Organization

Geneva, 2001

Exerpts -
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A 23-year-old laboratory technician was occupationally exposed to NMP during her first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The uptake via the lungs was probably of minor importance, as the NMP was handled at room temperature. Hand rinsing of glassware with NMP and cleaning up of an NMP spill in week 16 of pregnancy may have brought about a much larger uptake through the skin. During the 4 days following the spill, malaise, headache, and nausea were experienced. Examination of the pregnancy at week 14 showed no signs of delayed development; however, at week 25, signs of delayed fetal development were observed, and at week 31, a stillborn fetus was delivered. Stillbirth in this period of pregnancy is unusual. However, as the level of exposure is unknown, it is impossible to establish if exposure to NMP is the causative factor (Solomon et al., 1996; Bower, 1997).

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Workers exposed to NMP in working areas with air concentrations up to 280 mg/m3 reported severe eye irritation
and headache. With the methods of assessing the exposure level (sampling on charcoal and tracer gas method)
and the response (observation and informal interview), it is impossible to develop a concentration–response
relationship (Beaulieu & Schmerber, 1991). Six volunteers exposed to 10, 25, or 50 mg/m3 during 8 h in a chamber study registered their symptoms, before the start of exposure and then every 2 h for 16 h, in a questionnaire on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 = no symptoms and 10 = not tolerated). The volunteers displayed none of the following symptoms: eye or respiratory tract irritation; hacking cough, nose secretion, or blockage, sneezing, itching, or dryness in the mouth and throat, or other symptoms in upper airways; itching, secretion, smarting pain, visual disturbances, or other symptoms such as headache, dizziness, and nausea; and other symptoms.

Here's the MSDS for N-methyl 2 Pyrrolidone  :
http://msds.lyondell.com/servlet/COM.td.ehswww.servlet.FileStreamServlet?P_LANGU=E&P_SYS=1&P_SSN=4581&P_REP=27&P_RES=5914&EXT=.pdf

Edited on 5/22/2003 4:26 PM

Amazing.  Thanks to everybody for this overload of information.  Compared to most MSDS that I've seen, this stuff sounds positively harmless.  For some reason, I'm now having flashbacks to my days in organic chemistry class.

My next question is:  What's in this stuff?>

 

quote:

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100% pure unadulterated weasel...except no substitutes  

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Shiv
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold

Edited on 5/22/2003 6:52 PM