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Oops. Sunglasses + rubbing alcohol = no more UV protection?
I cleaned my sunglasses' lenses with rubbing alcohol before thinking about it. They're brand new sunglasses. Does this mean I seriously compromised the UV protection factor? By how much? Should I buy new sunglasses?
Asked by blueberry time:2011-05-05 02:10:18
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I think you can safely assume they are plastic lenses. Glass lenses are hardly ever used in glasses because they are heavy and they shatter easily. Ultra-high index glass lenses are normally used only for some extremely high prescriptions. If your lenses have an antireflective coating you will ruin it with Armour Etch.
answer: Jmax time: 1970-01-16 02:00:41Take your hand that your wear a ring on. Now go over to a glass window pain and tap the ring against the window. Listen to the sound it makes. Glass causes a sharp higher pitched click than plastic. Now go over to something made of plastic. It needs to be a pretty hard type plastic for comparison. Tap the ring against the plastic. Now tap the ring against your lenses. If you notice a sharp higher pitched clicking sound they are probably glass. If they sound more like a clunk than a click then they are probably plastic.
answer: yagman time: 1970-01-12 10:00:32They are plastic, that's the only kind of lenses I've ever had in mine. I don't know of anyone that wears real glasses lenses in their frames.
answer: T.J. time: 1970-01-09 03:00:36I don't think glass is used any more for glasses they are plasticjust maybe they should call corrective lenses "plastics"
answer: stingray time: 1970-01-02 20:00:38