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paint stripper

noun

  1. a liquid, often caustic, used to remove paint from a surface

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mr Yuen was given the door panel for free from a paint stripper yard in Cardiff, where it faced being binned.

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Over the following days paint stripper was poured on her car, she was spat at in the street and ostracised by people in her local community.

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To deal with any tenacious paint, use a liquid paint stripper, like CitriStrip.

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Methylene chloride and ethyl acetate are commonly used in paint stripper, nail polish removers and degreaser.

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Wendy Hartley, whose 21-year-old son, Kevin, died in 2017 while refinishing a bathtub — even after being trained in how to apply the paint stripper — lauded the proposal in a statement provided to the EPA.

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