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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks for the link!

  It did say that it reduces particle spread by 30-60% though, yet with qualifiers too.

  My natural intuitive thought is that the lid down surely limits the spreading, i.e. the left side of this picture, especially as compared with the right side:

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  Also, I want to (half jokingly) complain that they treat the MS2 bacteriophage like one of the bad guys there, as if killing the E. coili wouldn’t make it one of our allies in that fight:-). (I say jokingly bc most people reading such an article would know that, but also what they really used it for was a detection vector, probably bc the protein wrapping eases sample collection by reducing degradation.)

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  • absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Besides, not all seats are the same. The lid on my toilet wraps around the top of the bowl, which seems like it would reduce spread.

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    • OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would be neat if someone developed a product where like you could spray a mist into the air, or I guess pour a liquid into the bowl, turn off the lights, flush the toilet and then watch as it glows where all the “stuff” spreads:-). But for now, at least these studies are better than nothing.:-D

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      • TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean you could kinda do that yourself with UV ink and an appropriate flashlight. Put some in the bowl and some in the tank, maybe even different colors to see which portion contributes more.

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• Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why don’t they make sealing lids?

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