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   T to All   
   Re: Ping Frank: polydiketoenamine   
   13 May 19 16:03:23   
   
   From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 5/13/19 3:50 PM, T wrote:   
   > Hi Frank,   
   >    
   > I read with interest an article positing that we may have found   
   > the answer to plastic pollution: polydiketoenamine.   
   >    
   > https://www.foxnews.com/science/holy-grail-recyclable-plastics   
   >    
   > But on reading the article, I fail to see the practicality   
   > of such plastics.  They dissolve in acid.  There goes ketchup   
   > bottles!   
   >    
   > Am I missing something?   
   >    
   > -T   
      
   Me also wonders if this would even work as a water bottle?   
      
        H2O + CO2 = C 6 H 5 OH (Carbolic acid)   
      
   Start to leak after a month or two?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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