If it is winter, you can put new books and newspapers in the heating or by the fire for a day or two, and you can also speed up the volatilization of organic solvents. Although the new book and magazine just bought tastes bad, its safety is still very reliable, and readers can rest assured to read it.
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The smell of ink is related to organic solvents.
Printing ink consists of pigments, binders, solvents and additives. In the printing process, in order to leave color on the paper, colorants are needed. However, the colorant is very sticky, and some thinner must be added to dilute it. Diluent is an organic solvent, and organic solvent is an important part of various inks.
In the past, good organic solvents all contained pure benzene and smelled like fragrance. This is what we used to call ink fragrance, but benzene is harmful to people's health, so our country stipulates that organic solvents cannot contain benzene.
At present, the main organic solvents used are ethanol, isopropanol, butanol, propanol, butanone, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, toluene, xylene and so on. They have a pungent smell, which is why new books or magazines smell bad now.
The pigment particles in ink are very small and have strong adsorption capacity. Although it has been heated and dried during printing, it is often not completely dried because of its short time and high speed, especially for printed matter with large inking area and thick ink layer, there are many residual solvents. Because new books or magazines are stored after publication and will not be completely released into the air immediately, the smell of new books and newspapers is even stronger.
People's Daily Online-Books and newspapers are tasteless when they are dried in the sun.