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Scoundrellertoday at 12:29 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Some ingredients may be identified in relatively vague ways, that are sufficient for safety purposes but do not reveal the exact product

Where I find this can be fun is that different countries seem to have different requirements for precision. Or just straight up different formulations for the same thing.

German wd40 says it’s all c9-c11 carbon chains:

https://smarthost.maedler.de/datenblaetter/EG_SIDA_WD40_EN.p...

US has a CARB and non-CARB formulation which are also different:

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-a...

https://files.wd40.com/msds/latam/GHS-SDS-WD-40-Multi-Use-Pr...


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lazidetoday at 1:04 PM

I wonder how many different chemicals can be described as ‘c9-c11’ chains. Thousands?

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OhNoNotAgain_99today at 7:08 AM

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