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more about #carbonnanotubes more comments → 92BuickLeSabre: How about cool medical uses? You go to the doctor's office and change into "diagnosis pajamas" and then instead of just sitting and waiting for the do... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Intelligent pants? Invader's blood marches through my vein like giant radioactive rubber pants! The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins! With l... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: And in fact, the commission Chair refuses to wear such clothing at all: So if he doesn't wear lime green pinstripe suits, does that mean they're dange... more » MrBlahBlah: socks with the silver anti-bacterial stuff aren't nice anyways, they dont absorb very well. more » Rabid Penguin: THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! THE WORLD WILL END TOMORROW! Everyone please pass your club membership dues to Al. Al, you can pass out the co... more » sumocat: The early work with nanotechnology reminds me of early work with radioactivity, you know, like when Marie Curie was handling radium with her bare hand... more » GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE: I hate to sound like an idiot, but would nano silver really kill all these things? If I flush a gallon of bleach down my septic tank, yeah, the bacte... more » OMG! Ponies!: Where's Michael Crichton and his fear of "grey goo" when you need him? Oh yeah, he's dead. more » flaxseed: How do I know if my socks have nano-thingies in them? more » -
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Nano Silver May Be Envionment's Silver Bullet
The UK's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has recently released a report urging for more study of nano-engineered materials, warning that there is a "major gap" in our knowledge of this technology. We've covered the potential dangers of carbon nanotubes here before, but the commission also warns about nano silver, an antibacterial particle that can be found in a variety of clothing, like socks. And in fact, the commission Chair refuses to wear such clothing at all: More »
