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   From: jusuk@travel-diarySPAMOFF.de.retro.com   
      
   "Marc 182"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1ceb51134d9cc07e98987d@nnrp1.phx1.gblx.net...   
   > In article <42801C8F.6055DC61@frontiernet.net>, bondage@frontiernet.net   
   > says...   
   >> Rick Jones wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > What would happen to a soiled (presumeably mostly sweat and body oils   
   >> > right?) garment is simply hung out the window as it were - that is to   
   >> > say simply exposed to the vacuum of space?  What would happen to the   
   >> > sweat and oils?   
   >> >   
   >> > rick jones   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    H2O would sublime to vapor, if mildly warm. Expect many of the   
   >> remaining components to become crystallized 'freeze-dried' stuff...but   
   >> would it readily let go of the cloth? That's what one really wants.   
   >   
   > Put the laundry in a cage and then vibrate that, either roughly or   
   > ultrasonically. Should work pretty well. Recalls desperate college days   
   > of hanging jeans out of my window instead of a $.25 wash.   
   >   
   > On Mars, the jeans would get dusty.   
   >   
      
   Surely the cloth would either be frozen solid and break up or melt and   
   evapourate depending on whether it was in sunlight or not? Would also be   
   radioactive?   
      
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