Let’s say I hypothetically had some mice pee in some plastic components that cannot be properly cleaned in any realistic way. Is it possible to heat it up to “cook off” the mouse pee nastiness without actually melting the plastic?

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    8 months ago

    It depends what you mean by nastiness. Doesn’t urine contain salts that you’re never going to realistically boil?

    While urine doesn’t typically contain large amounts of protein, it may be present along with other metabolites that I don’t expect can be boiled.

    Uric acid and urea can be boiled off over about 200 Celsius, but you are going to have residue remaining.