Saw this listed on Slashdot, made by a German company called Nanopool. They invented an actual pure silicon dioxide that is in a vehicle of either alcohol or water, allow easy coat & cleaning of many surfaces once dry.
Spray On Glass - Revolutionary Product
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gallonoffuel
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I saw this all over the tech sites yesterday. The two things I did not see addressed were: would this be available to home users (I foresee issues with glass particles in the lungs, so I predict this will be industrial use only), and how much does it cost?
Quote www.physorg.com
In the home, spray-on glass would eliminate the need for scrubbing and make most cleaning products obsolete. Since it is available in both water-based and alcohol-based solutions, it can be used in the oven, in bathrooms, tiles, sinks, and almost every other surface in the home, and one spray is said to last a year. Liquid glass spray is perhaps the most important nanotechnology product to emerge to date. It will be available in DIY stores in Britain soon, with prices starting at around £5 ($8 US). Other outlets, such as many supermarkets, may be unwilling to stock the products because they make enormous profits from cleaning products that need to be replaced regularly, and liquid glass would make virtually all of them obsolete.
Further info: www.nanopool.eu/couk/index.htm
gallonoffuel
Enlightened
Thanks! I'm still curious about the health effects. If this sticks to plastics fairly well, I'd love to have this to spray on the hull of my kayak.
jch79
**Do Not Feed The Vegan**,
The EPA & CDC regulate and sometimes ban certain cleaning products for a reason - they can contain chemicals that cause cancer, brain damage, kidney and liver failure... and more fun stuff.
The green cleaning products (or the "enviro clean crap", as you call it
) work amazingly well, and are fast becoming the standard in commercial and industrial cleaning companies. :thumbsup: john
The EPA & CDC regulate and sometimes ban certain cleaning products for a reason - they can contain chemicals that cause cancer, brain damage, kidney and liver failure... and more fun stuff.
The green cleaning products (or the "enviro clean crap", as you call it
:thumbsup: john
For one reason only:
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fyrstormer
Banned
I switched to Green Works and Seventh Generation cleaners about a year ago and never looked back. I occasionally run into something that I need 409 for, but not very often. The "enviro crap" works just fine.
jch79
**Do Not Feed The Vegan**,
Not true at all. :shakehead Unless you have proof otherwise?
There are still plenty of very harsh cleaning chemicals out there (especially that commercial/industrial cleaning companies have access to). However, some companies (both manufacturers and service providers) are forward-thinking enough to realize that end users (building owners and property managers) have started demanding that they not use such strong chemicals.
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This is something I just leaned today: Scientists study the particle sizes of sprays and ect, to determine if it is safe to use around humans. There is a particular particle size range that is dangerous, it is small enough to be inhaled but large enough to stick in your lungs and not be exhaled, a smaller particle will be able to be inhaled and exhaled.
garilla
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Can I interest any of you guys in some cold fusion, I just happen to have some of the plans real cheap.
Fulgeo
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PhotonWrangler
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I'm also wondering about potential health effects. If this stuff adheres so well to fabrics and other materials, what's to keep it from adhering to lung tissue and staying there forever? I can see this being used only for industrial applications for this reason.
Well they claim it is breathable in the 2nd paragraph on their website...although I'm not sure if they mean the water/alcohol vehicle vapors. Surely they are not inviting people to inhale an aerosolized exposure.
I'm sure they would have had to address this from a health risk, because if you click on their various pages, they are clearly intending this for ubiquitous home use.
First thing I thought of was how it would perform on a windshield that has been sand-pitted. Their surfaces page includes links at the top for: Textiles, Stone, Metal, Plastic, Glass.
I'm sure they would have had to address this from a health risk, because if you click on their various pages, they are clearly intending this for ubiquitous home use.
First thing I thought of was how it would perform on a windshield that has been sand-pitted. Their surfaces page includes links at the top for: Textiles, Stone, Metal, Plastic, Glass.
sunspot
Flashlight Enthusiast
How about putting it on a windshield before it is pitted?:twothumbs
Either way, it could save some money.
TedTheLed
Flashlight Enthusiast
this looks like similar stuff, but it's impregnated into wood.
makes it stronger, nearly indestructable -- they say...
coats the wood fibers with molecules of glass..nontoxic. seems ideal.
http://www.woodwontburn.com/
" TimberSIL ($2.25 to $2.50 a linear foot, compared with roughly $2.75 to $3.75 for top-quality composites and $1.50 for kiln-dried wood decking) "petrifies wood by treating it with silica," creating a wood product that's nontoxic, noncorrosive and a Class A fire retardant, says EBN editor Peter Yost. The manufacturer calls the stuff *"glass wood," since the glass is infused into the spaces between the fibers in the wood, a Southern yellow pine. "You can have a raging fire and it just sits there and looks at you," says TimberSIL representative Rick Dixon ..."
makes it stronger, nearly indestructable -- they say...
coats the wood fibers with molecules of glass..nontoxic. seems ideal.
http://www.woodwontburn.com/
" TimberSIL ($2.25 to $2.50 a linear foot, compared with roughly $2.75 to $3.75 for top-quality composites and $1.50 for kiln-dried wood decking) "petrifies wood by treating it with silica," creating a wood product that's nontoxic, noncorrosive and a Class A fire retardant, says EBN editor Peter Yost. The manufacturer calls the stuff *"glass wood," since the glass is infused into the spaces between the fibers in the wood, a Southern yellow pine. "You can have a raging fire and it just sits there and looks at you," says TimberSIL representative Rick Dixon ..."
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Linger
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Plans are for wide spread applications. Liquid glass:
-won't rust, won't fade
-prevents weathering, preserves monuments
-anti-microbial, anti-virial, anti-bacterial, protects against UV
-is flexible and breathable, reduces friction
-seeds coated last longer, plants sprayed grow bigger faster as they aren't attacked and don't need incecticides/anti-funcial sprays
-sprayed surfaces come clean with water as contaminents cannot adhere to the surface
-fabrics become stain resistent and water resistant, don't fade or abraid
From grapes to bricks to catheter's to kitchen counters this stuff is poised to cover majority of all consumer surfaces.
Removed with a strong base (ph ~12, e.g. bleach)
-won't rust, won't fade
-prevents weathering, preserves monuments
-anti-microbial, anti-virial, anti-bacterial, protects against UV
-is flexible and breathable, reduces friction
-seeds coated last longer, plants sprayed grow bigger faster as they aren't attacked and don't need incecticides/anti-funcial sprays
-sprayed surfaces come clean with water as contaminents cannot adhere to the surface
-fabrics become stain resistent and water resistant, don't fade or abraid
From grapes to bricks to catheter's to kitchen counters this stuff is poised to cover majority of all consumer surfaces.
Removed with a strong base (ph ~12, e.g. bleach)
65535
Flashlight Enthusiast
Am I the only one that is seeing this as a non reactive compound being suspended in water or alcohol as a delivery agent that is supposed to be some be all end all amazing product?
Last time I checked SiO2 was nothing terribly special, just quartz crystal, a simple solid that is very stable, but doesn't show half of the supposed properties that this stuff supposedly has.
Last time I checked SiO2 was nothing terribly special, just quartz crystal, a simple solid that is very stable, but doesn't show half of the supposed properties that this stuff supposedly has.
