Chemistry Forum

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Let me rephrase this. I hear fiberglass is unreactive with acid. Are there any substances that react with it? Strong bases? idk. Plz help.

Fiberglass is a compound of glasfibres with epoxy resin. These are very difficult to destroy. The resin can be attacked by some solvent like alkylglycol ethers, NMP, DMF, Tetraetch and others at alkaline conditions at high temperature followed with an alcaline Permanganate etch. The glass can only attacked by bifluorides at low pH.
In practise these method is used in the manufacturing of printed circuit boards. The FR₄ resin is treated after the holes are drilled by this process.It is called desmear.

is it true that acetone and similar can degrade it? what about bleach.

Both are to weak

It's really difficult because if fiberglass can decompose, it requires something very toxic to destroy it. But it's really risky to try.