Thread: Actual Testing OMG - Alcohol and Razors

If heat energy added to a system can be stored as kinetic energy of the particles, that means that, if the system has heat energy, the particles will have kinetic energy. It's as simple as - the particles are moving, and therefore they have kinetic energy. Also, the potential energy being referenced is most likely not a reference to atomic energy; it is probably to do with phase or some other physical arrangement (but that is off topic).

If you really want to say that moving particles don't have kinetic energy, that's fine, but every physicist I've ever met (including all the ones I worked with at FNAL) will completely disagree with you.

I am delighted to see hair-splitting going on in this thread.

(I bet nobody's made THAT joke around here before...)

Have you ever poured that stuff in a good cut? Talk about your kinetic energy!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Have you ever poured that stuff in a good cut? Talk about your kinetic energy!!!!!!!!

Um, yeah...but its kinetic energy paled to my own when I was running at what approached light speed to get enough wind to cool it down

I just put two nice razors (three actually) in denatured alcohol that was almost entirely ethanol with a trace of methyl alcohol this weekend (i.e., the stuff you would use to dissolve shellac).

I noticed that the razors discolored easily right off the bat, but then again, they didn't have fatty soap on them and they had drops of water on them from time to time. Autosol quickly (very very quickly) solved the problem, and there were no pits.

I guess everyone can do whatever they want, I'd keep the scales out of alcohol in case they are something that is dissolved or degraded in it, but whatever.

I wonder where one finds barbicide, other than those shops that only let people with a beutician's license in (and not online).

I wonder, too, how many of these razors have anything on them other than whatever's floating around in the air. I just received two, and the sellers honed both of them, which is something I could've done myself, I suppose. I don't know if that means that they were just used prior to that, but I don't think much of anything other than hepatitis B would survive any signficant period of being dry.

I think we're chasing around our fears most of the time, and what applies to a barber who is constantly using a razor on one person after another doesn't necessarily apply to us. At least not until we start hearing about people actually getting something from a straight razor. Surely it would be something we'd have heard about by now.

Interesting.. albeit threadsurrection. Thanks for running your test.


(Although... in all honesty... I only clicked on this thread because the title implied a "Hold my beer and watch this" moment.)

Originally Posted by DaveW

I wonder where one finds barbicide, other than those shops that only let people with a beutician's license in (and not online).

Sally's Beauty Supply has it. Anyone can shop there. They are a nationwide chain so there is a chance one might be near you. Otherwise yes they have a website online where it could be purchased.

King Research - Original Barbicide 16 oz.
Of course you will NEED the jar to match!
King Research - Barbicide Disinfecting Jar

Originally Posted by linearone

Sally's Beauty Supply has it. Anyone can shop there. They are a nationwide chain so there is a chance one might be near you. Otherwise yes they have a website online where it could be purchased.

King Research - Original Barbicide 16 oz.
Of course you will NEED the jar to match!
King Research - Barbicide Disinfecting Jar

As far as the jar is concerned, l use an 8 ounce mason jar