Nick, Copper kills virus on contact. There are masks sold with copper fibers woven into them and they are cited as effective by CDC. There are also gloves with copper fibers woven in, but they are not being touted because almost all attention is on droplet transmission, not surface.
davew On Mon, Jun 22, 2020, at 12:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Any materials experts out there? > > Ok, so. We know that most covid transmission is hand to face and we know that > the virus is highly vulnerable to acids and some other substances. Is it not > possible to design gloves (and perhaps masks) with those substances embedded? > How about cloth gloves dunked in vinegar and hung out to dry before wearing? > Is vinegar still acid when it’s dry? > > Yeah. I know. Dumb. But somebody explain to me why. > > N > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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