Ive been seeing a lot of mention of how evil pvc is and yet i had just prior to seeing all of this bought about 200 archival safe bcw currency holders in both regular and large.
Is vinyl the same as pvc currency storage.
The modern currency box holds up to 125 modern currency sleeves and measures 7 3 8 long x 4 1 4 wide x 3 1 4 high.
But it says archival safe so i cant tell if they some how made the pvc safe or bcw is just advertising the archival safe and.
Below are two images showing the irreversible damages that can be done to the document and the sheet protector if its made from pvc.
The plasticizers are what allows the chlroine to leech out of the plastic to react with our coins.
Pvc is naturally hard rigid plastic.
The key difference between pvc and vinyl is that pvc is a polymer while vinyl is a functional group.
The repeating units are monomers.
It can generally be assumed that a product is made with pvc when the term vinyl is used to describe it.
There is flexible vinyl like the shower curtain that you likely have in your home and there is rigid vinyl like the clear hard plastic that batteries are packaged in.
As you can clearly see the red ink on the document is ruined as well as the sheet protector itself as the red.
Currency sleeve storage boxes.
These monomers bind with each other with covalent bonds to form a polymer.
Pvc and coins don t mix.
It can generally be assumed that a product is made with pvc when the term vinyl is used to describe it.
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Polymers are large molecules which has the same structural unit repeating over and over.
The plasticizers are added to make it soft flexible pliable.
However you are probably right to be skeptical.
They both list as semi rigid pvc.
Flexible vinyl has plasticizers in it that keep the vinyl pliable.
Available for both modern size and large size sleeves.
Polyvinyl chloride pvc pipes and other rigid pvc products do not use plasticizers.
In other words do not use vinyl or pvc sheet protectors for storage of any valuable belongings.
These currency sleeve storage boxes are the perfect solution to storing your currency sleeves.
Despite the fact that the chemical has been identified as a carcinogen and.
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Otherwise known as polyvinylchloride pvc is found in many different plastic based products.