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  2. Dry cleaning - Wikipedia

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    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 solvent (usually non-polar , as opposed to water which is a polar solvent ).

  3. Drying - Wikipedia

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    In the area of sanitation, drying of sewage sludge from sewage treatment plants, fecal sludge or feces collected in urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDT) is a common method to achieve pathogen kill, as pathogens can only tolerate a certain dryness level. In addition, drying is required as a process step if the excreta based materials are meant to ...

  4. Wet cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Wet cleaning refers to methods of professional cleaning that, in contrast to traditional dry cleaning, avoids the use of chemical solvents, the most common of which is tetrachloroethylene (commonly called perchloroethylene or "perc").

  5. Martinizing Dry Cleaning - Wikipedia

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    Martinizing Cleaners is a dry cleaning franchise based in Naples, FL and was founded in 1949. [1] Clean Brands, LLC , the parent company, is the largest dry cleaning franchise in the world , with over 400 franchised stores worldwide.

  6. Pearson v. Chung - Wikipedia

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    Pearson v. Chung, also known as the "$54 million pants" case, is a 2007 civil case decided in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in which Roy Pearson, then an administrative law judge, sued his local dry cleaning establishment for $54 million in damages after the dry cleaners allegedly lost his pants.

  7. New Long Leg - Wikipedia

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    New Long Leg is the debut studio album by English post-punk band Dry Cleaning, released in April 2021 on the label 4AD. Produced by John Parish , it received critical acclaim by the press in the UK and the US.

  8. Carpet cleaning - Wikipedia

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    A 98% biodegradable or other, [2] slightly moist absorbent cleaning compound may be spread evenly over carpet and brushed or scrubbed in. For small areas, a household hand brush can work such a compound into carpet pile; working like "tiny sponges", the attracted cleaning solution dissolves dirt, and dirt and grime is attracted/absorbed to the compound.

  9. Slot-die coating - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the complexity of the coating apparatus, a slot-die coating system may include additional modules for e.g. precise positioning of the slot-die over the substrate, particulate filtering of the coating solution, pre-treatment of the substrate (e.g. cleaning and surface energy modification), and post-processing steps (e.g. drying ...