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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

great article - sending to the family

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3825197/posts?page=1

The science of soap – here’s how it kills the coronavirus
theguardian.com ^ | 3/12/2020 | Pall Thordarson


600 posted on 03/16/2020 12:17:36 PM PDT by bitt ("Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt

Alton Brown has a new UToob tutorial about hand-washing and soap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIwdf3WKe3Y
Likely the same science but more entertaining. Good for nerdy preteens/teens.


677 posted on 03/16/2020 2:15:46 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Scatology is serendipitous)
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To: bitt; Bigg Red; Califreak

“The science of soap ...”

It was a good article.

I was surprised. I thought that the action was mechanical, that it just washed viruses away. I did not realize it dissolved the virus’ fat membrane and de-laminated the it.


837 posted on 03/16/2020 6:59:44 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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