We Just Found The Secret Weapon That Makes Cotton The Best For Reusable Face Masks

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 10 MARCH 2021 | TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS

[Bulwyf]

I laughed way too hard at that.

I must be a terrible person.

[null and void]

A nice picket fence, maybe?

Maybe, but not white, that would be racist!

[Salamander]

Black, then.

[Salamander]

The ‘rona is confused by the all swirly fibers and gets hopelessly lost, thereby sparing you.

/it’s as good a reason as any

[Salamander]

Go hard or go home

[null and void]

Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog

She is a bit like the much mourned Tiamat - "Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!"

[Irenic]

I thought there was a study that said the virus lived longest on cotton. I thinks 6 days or something like that.

[Red Badger]

It’s racist.................

[logi_cal869]

Dumbasses

[Irenic]

It is! No more cotton! Cancel, cancel, cancel NOW!

[TBall]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYxHBQefNw

[higgmeister]

We Just Found The Secret Weapon That Makes Cotton The Best For Reusable Face Masks

Let me guess, soak the cotton in nitric acid.   Boom!   It's a not so secret weapon.   That's been known about for almost 200 years.

[Red Badger]

I wonder how it was ‘discovered’?.....................

[Hot Tabasco]

Ban cotton, you know where the pickers got us.....

[higgmeister]

Yeah, I wonder too. It doesn't say on wekipedia.

In 1832 Henri Braconnot discovered that nitric acid, when combined with starch or wood fibers, would produce a lightweight combustible explosive material, which he named xyloïdine.[4] A few years later in 1838, another French chemist, Théophile-Jules Pelouze (teacher of Ascanio Sobrero and Alfred Nobel), treated paper and cardboard in the same way.[5] Jean-Baptiste Dumas obtained a similar material, which he called nitramidine.[6] These substances were highly unstable and were not practical explosives.

I remember from elementary school in the early 1960's, Jules Verne writing about gun cotton used to fire his capsule to the moon.

[Red Badger]

Jean-Baptiste Dumass.................

[TribalPrincess2U]

Still racist! Must not act blackish! Must not imitate anything blacks see as their own heritage! Big round earrings, afro doos, etc.

I always thought imitation was the best form of flattery, my self!

[livius]

LOL! And make sure you cover up every orifice.

[gundog]

They don’t work the way I wear ‘em.

[sheana]

I’ve been around thousands of people. I never stopped going. I’ve flown round trip twice. I’ve been to every casino I passed in Oklahoma and Las Vegas. I’ve been going to Vegas about twice a month since June 2019. I’ve gone to Chumash casino by Solvang, Ca regularly. I’ve hugged people I only see once a month. I only wear a mask where they force me to and haven’t gotten sick yet. The only family I know that has had COVID.......the daughter is a corrections officer and brought it home from the prison. 3 of them had light symptoms and 2 of them tested positive with no symptoms.