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by gambiting 2972 days ago
I'm guessing it came from "another era" where you could buy stuff like this without an issue?

But even few years ago I visited a wolfram mine in Portugal on a job, and was told by the guy I worked with at the time that the miners are using stuff "banned long time ago in UK" to clean the tips of the guiding ropes which we were replacing. I was never told what it was, but nowadays I suspect it was HF.

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For those who might be confused, "wolfram" refers to Tungsten.