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Modern industrial toilets (that is, ones installed in work facilities) use high pressure to, uh, mash up the flushable materials, which seems to greatly increas
by dekhn 3y ago
Modern industrial toilets (that is, ones installed in work facilities) use high pressure to, uh, mash up the flushable materials, which seems to greatly increase the aerosolization. I had some friends in grad school who put bacteria-sensitive substance on the walls of the toilet stall and you could easily see hot spots of deposited matter.
- nerpderp82 3y agoAerosol Generation by Modern Flush Toilets https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4666014/ https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36734 https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36734 has additional supporting material > Up to 145,000 droplets were produced per flush, with the high-energy flushometer producing over three times as many as the lower energy PAT and over 12 times as many as the lowest energy HET despite similar flush volumes. The mean numbers of fluorescent droplet nuclei particles aerosolized and remaining airborne also increased with flush energy. Fluorescent droplet nuclei per flush decreased with increasing particle size. These findings suggest two concurrent aerosolization mechanisms—splashing for large droplets and bubble bursting for the fine droplets that form droplet nuclei.