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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 3210365, member: 36"]Can you get good old sodium bicarbonate/baking soda? First wash the bangle good. Then dunk a damp cotton swab in some of that and rub the inside of the bangle with it. Rub hard and stick your nose next to the bangle. You should smell a formaldehyde stink if it's bakelite as I suspect. The swab should turn yellow or brown at the contact point too. If not, it's something else. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you do the same test and smell mothballs it's celluloid.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 3210365, member: 36"]Can you get good old sodium bicarbonate/baking soda? First wash the bangle good. Then dunk a damp cotton swab in some of that and rub the inside of the bangle with it. Rub hard and stick your nose next to the bangle. You should smell a formaldehyde stink if it's bakelite as I suspect. The swab should turn yellow or brown at the contact point too. If not, it's something else. If you do the same test and smell mothballs it's celluloid.[/QUOTE]
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