Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!princeton!phoenix!greg
From: greg@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Enzyme action
Message-ID: <872@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 16:16:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: phoenix.872
Posted: Wed Oct  7 16:16:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 10:37:24 EDT
References: <240@ddsw1.UUCP> <305@idacrd.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@phoenix.UUCP (Gregory Nowak)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
Lines: 29
Summary: Acetone does it ...
Xref: mnetor sci.bio:702 sci.physics:2432

In article <305@idacrd.UUCP> mac@idacrd.UUCP (Bob McGwier) writes:
}in article <240@ddsw1.UUCP>, dino@ddsw1.UUCP (Laura Watson) says:


}> What I am wondering is this:  Is there in existence an actual enzyme, 
}> such as the digestive enzymes of some insect or another, which is
}> known to dissolve pine rosin?  Pine rosin is always a sticky mess, and 
}> hard to clean off of anything.  Especially when one puts it into
}> "rosin" soldering flux......  

} It is called the Southern Pine Beetle.  ...

As I boy, I loved to climb pine trees ... and my hands would get covered
with the stuff. Mom, as always, knew what to do -- use nail polish remover.
Soak a cloth or cotton ball with it, and the stuff just wipes off. If you
have lots of pine rosin problems, a good hardware store will sell you 
a quart of the active ingredient in nail polish remover (acetone) for a
few bucks.

Probably cheaper than collecting the digestive enzymes of nasty beetles ...;-)


greg

-- 
			Due to troubles on mind, I'm temporarily
greg			posting from phoenix ... you can reply to 
			...!seismo!princeton!phoenix!greg , and 
   			...!seismo!princeton!mind!greg is still good too ...