6. Another way to put is say the sponge wipes up yellow liquid. Then you wring out the sponge and yellow liquid comes out. Now the sponge is 85% dry. Next you wipe up blue liquid. Wring it out and not the liquid coming out is green. Not fully blue not fully yellow but a blue-green. Same principle.
You keep talking about sponges and water. Thisis ,in my opinion, a poor example for comparison. A sponge soaks up water bythe process of
absorption where as activated carbon works by the process of
adsorption.They sound very similar (look similar too as they only have one letter different) but they are completely different processes. To be more precise , the difference between
adsorption and
absorption is that
adsorption is the attraction between the outer surface of a solid particle and a contaminant, whereas
absorption is the uptake of the contaminant into the physical structure of the solid. In
absorbtion theliquid has simply been drawn inside the physical structure of the sponge and held there by weak Van der Waals type forces. It is therefore easily expelled by even a gentle sqeeze. In
adsorbtion the organic compounds haveformed a physicochemical bondto a receptor site on the surface of the carbon. This bond is not easily broken.
1. No we are not going to publish the raw data as some information in that would break confidentiality agreements. Sorry.
So let me get this straight. You claim that Scent-Lok has scientificdata backing all your claims butthey just can't release it to the general public due to
confidentality agreements.With who? That really doesn't seem to make any sense. If it's raw scientific data about your own product how can you be restricted from the free and open use of that information? The only entity that could impose such a restriction would be Scent-Lok.
5. They published a book that outlined the system for measurment and how to isolate the chemicals coming off a human body. "Biochemical Applications of Mass Spectrometry" Good read! We took their information and subjucted our products for measurement.
Again no one doubts that virgin uncontaminated activated carbon will adsorb molecules that cause odor. The questionsare: A. How rapidly does it become saturated? I mean even at the time of intial purchase it's already been hanging on arack exposed toopen air for maybe months. It's been exposed to every browser passing by wearing perfume/cologne; wearinggrease, chemical or gas soaked clothing; and people withjust plain bad body odor. And B. How can it be reactivated by a common house dryer when everything I know and science tells us about the properties of activated carbon indicate that this is impossible.
We are talking the difference between washing dishes in a dishwasher and using an autoclave system to do surgery.
Yeah but the difference is that a dishwasher
actually works to remove food particles and enough bacteria from pots and pans to make them safe for home use again. A household dryer doesn't get hot enough to regenerate activated carbon. So you see your claim is actually more like telling me that I could actually use my dishwasher as an autoclave. Something I know it can't do!