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Take a glass of water and shine a light through it in a dark room. Look into it and you should see tiny white filaments that look like tiny hairs floating aroun
by adrianwaj 5y ago
Take a glass of water and shine a light through it in a dark room. Look into it and you should see tiny white filaments that look like tiny hairs floating around. I think that's what they mean.
If that doesn't work, leave it for a few hours and check the top surface or bottom of the glass. You can also try with urine.
Also, if you leave it for a few days, these filaments may grow... that is beyond microplastics and moving into synthetic biology.
- ostenning 5y ago> Also, if you leave it for a few days, these filaments may grow... that is beyond microplastics and moving into synthetic biology. Sorry, what do you mean by this? The plastic in my urine will grow into something else?
- adrianwaj 5y agoPerhaps "self-assemble" would be a better word than "grow" and it wouldn't be limited to just urine and plastic. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00127/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.0012... "Nanoscale Self-Assembly for Therapeutic Delivery" That's just one of many articles on the topic.
- red_trumpet 5y ago> If that doesn't work, leave it for a few hours and check the top surface or bottom of the glass Did you ever hear about dust[1]? I think that phenomenon is way older than microplastics. Though I don't know if common dust contains microplastics... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust
- adrianwaj 5y agoIsn't dust filtered out by the lungs? What happens if you drink dust? You'd have to look for similarities between a cup of water and a cup of urine. Also, I suppose one may check for biofilm in the urine.