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dry cleaning
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cleaning of fabrics in non-aqueous solvents
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- cleaning
- Part of
- textile industry
- Image
- Drycleanmachine.JPG
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- Commons category
- Dry cleaning
- topic's main category
- Category:Dry cleaning
- Merchant Category Code
- 7216
- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 8154
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Encyclopedic overview
A dry-cleaner in East Germany, 1975
Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a solvent other than water. Clothes are instead soaked in a water-free liquid organic solvent (usually non-polar, as opposed to water which is a polar solvent) typically inside a specialised dry-cleaning machine. The most commonly used solvent is perchloroethylene (known as "PCE" or "perc" for short), although other solvents such as hydrocarbon mixtures and decamethylcyclopentasiloxane are also used. Historical solvents include gasoline, kerosene, Stoddard solvent, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, trichlorotrifluoroethane, trichloroethane and n-propyl bromide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dry cleaning” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.