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2 Responses to “what is the chemical in tea stains?”
Salt is a very effective cleaning agent. When I worked in the restaurant industry to get the coffee and tea pots clean we would squeeze lemons and pour salt into the pots add ice and mix them around. The lemons and salt would act like a bleaching agent and get them spiffy clean.
The chemical is Hydrolyzable tannins and the salt will absorb the majority of the stain, whilst the sun will evaporate any remaining mousture and also bleach the fabric (UV rays splitting the chromphores, thus preventing them from absorbing visiable light)
December 19th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Salt is a very effective cleaning agent. When I worked in the restaurant industry to get the coffee and tea pots clean we would squeeze lemons and pour salt into the pots add ice and mix them around. The lemons and salt would act like a bleaching agent and get them spiffy clean.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
The chemical is Hydrolyzable tannins and the salt will absorb the majority of the stain, whilst the sun will evaporate any remaining mousture and also bleach the fabric (UV rays splitting the chromphores, thus preventing them from absorbing visiable light)