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Retr0bright

Retr0bright noun: a chemical mixture, mainly hydrogen peroxide, used to remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer and electronics cases.

Noun

Retr0bright (uncountable)

  1. A chemical mixture, mainly hydrogen peroxide, used to remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer and electronics cases.
    • Keep me busy this weekend! In between blowing power supplies and running all my cases through a bath of retr0bright! Hah!2009 April 15, capknight, “Re: Apple Power Supply Questions”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)
    • retr0bright works well but the plastic does indeed need to be ABS.2012 March 9, JC, “Re: Cleaning my routed STTNG - how to restore the ships?”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet)

Verb

Retr0bright (third-person singular simple present Retr0brights, present participle Retr0brighting, simple past and past participle Retr0brighted)

  1. To remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer or electronics cases via this method.
    • These are four different machines I've been restoring over time (cleaning, retrobrighting all the cases, new capacitors on cards and motherboards […]2009 October 13, atfphot...@gmail.com, “Re: What's in your Apple?”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)
    • This IIc is cleaning up really nice. Going to Retrobright it soon!2017 June 28, cb meeks, “Re: Yet another IIc in my collection”, in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet)

Forms of Retr0bright

third-person singular presentRetr0brights
present participleRetr0brighting
past participleRetr0brighted
pastRetr0brighted

Origin of Retr0bright

From retro- + bright with 0 for o as in leetspeak. See retrocomputing.

Questions about Retr0bright

What does Retr0bright mean?
Retr0bright means a chemical mixture, mainly hydrogen peroxide, used to remove yellowing from ABS plastic computer and electronics cases.
What part of speech is Retr0bright?
Retr0bright can be a noun or a verb.

Words near Retr0bright in the dictionary

  1. retoxifying
  2. retoxing
  3. retozide
  4. retpoline
  5. retpolines
  6. Retr0bright
  7. Retr0brighted
  8. Retr0brighting
  9. Retr0brights
  10. retrace
  11. retrace one's steps

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