That disclaimer at the beginning of your each post is pretty funny.

Ignorant; I think not. I am, by profession, an analytical chemist. I work with organics. I use liquid-liquid extractions to prep my samples, and remove contaminants in the aqueous phase, without seeing any drop in response of my surrogate standard which remains in the nonpolar phase. So don't call me ignorant, and don't tell me what to do. Assumptions one makes about people online turn out to be WRONG a lot of the time. There are PhDs on the board.

If you had bothered to read around here before posting/flaming, you'd have noticed that the site staff work VERY hard to educate the members on safety. Any comments you see that you consider to be giving unsafe advice need to be REPORTED; that's the little red and white triangle to the upper RH corner of each post. We do NOT allow flaming.

As for silicone (which you have only just mentioned for the first time, by the way), you'd be able to tell if you got it on your fingers and found that it left a hydrophobic residue. No dealer would be stupid enough to use it as a coating. It would not feel 'sticky' so much as 'slimy'.

You are welcome to piss off if you can't participate without attacking other members, NOOB.