10th April 2008, 2:22 PM
I think you oversimplified a bit there. The exact chemistry is a must when it comes to things like this.
Namely it still seems like all you are doing is washing off the disk, only you are also washing off some toothpaste now. Before speculating on "filling in stuff with stuff" or how it might work, we've got to figure out if it's responsible at all. So, did you test just washing it without the toothpaste, or with pretty much any sort of other cleaner you have lying around?
Namely it still seems like all you are doing is washing off the disk, only you are also washing off some toothpaste now. Before speculating on "filling in stuff with stuff" or how it might work, we've got to figure out if it's responsible at all. So, did you test just washing it without the toothpaste, or with pretty much any sort of other cleaner you have lying around?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)