Vendors of new equipment often ship you a vessel that has been polished. Often they do not know the chemical constitutes of the polish or of the gases. Our approach to cleaning, in this case, is use of a non-polar solvent to remove organics followed by a polar solvent to remove inorganics. Is this acceptable?
First of all, we have not discussed this kind of cleaning within the expert-working group. What you
have just described is a perfect example of how to use scientific knowledge, and it sounds like a
good approach for dealing with this situation.
