No more goo on your shoe!


	No more goo on your shoe!

aculton

9-25-2007 11:20 AM

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news, gum, science

aculton says:

Thank God!

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9-25-2007 3:49 PM

neochonetes

That sounds really cool. Hope it works out safely. If they make that gum available, I wonder what will parents tell their kids when they swallow their gum?

9-25-2007 4:14 PM

The REAL Napster

the trick to decreasing the stickiness of the gum was to add a polymer that made it less adhesive

in other words they added plastic. Eck!

9-25-2007 7:35 PM

aculton

I wonder what will parents tell their kids when they swallow their gum?

That it will not stick on the way out, I guess...

9-25-2007 7:35 PM

aculton

in other words they added plastic. Eck!

9-25-2007 7:37 PM

aculton

OOPS! anyway, your right.
I didn't think about that, it is plastic.Eck!

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