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To: RosieCotton
Would a lot of that come from the water?

Yeah..the chloroform would. Back when I was doing volatile analysis they would decaf the coffee by extracting it with methylene chloride. The acetone was debatable...the "geniuses" who set the lab up put the instruments across the hall from the extraction lab....duhhhh.

1,848 posted on 02/05/2004 9:33:08 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
How do they "decaf" the coffee nowadays?
1,851 posted on 02/05/2004 9:40:00 AM PST by RosieCotton
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