Thursday, March 12, 2009

Random Science Fact

Okay, so yesterday I learned something kind of amazing. If you've been working with garlic and want to get the garlic smell off your hands, all you have to do is get your hands wet, then rub them against any stainless steel surface.

Why does this work? No idea. But it does!

5 comments:

Kate The Great said...

So get my hands wet and them rub them against my sink? Which is probably not clean in the first place? Nah.

Ryan said...

When the klitoplasms interact with the pharsopholups in the steel, the friction actuates the stacisity between the odoriferous elements that garlic leaves on your skin and the Barsok splines that make up the geometry of the molecule bindings found in most types of steel. This reverses (or negates) the adhesiveness score that garlic (as well as other types of falankerins) generally has for a few hours. The steel usually has a really thin subpartolic surface afterward, but not enough for the naked eye to notice.

Aye Spy said...

Kate--sure, then you could kill two birds with one stone. Clean sink AND clean-smelling hands.

Ryan--so they teach you about barsok splines at Perdew? Deed.

Momof8 said...

Ryan, if you could find a way to make it rhyme, you could be the next Dr. Seuss!

Sabrina said...

Ryan, I laughed out loud at your comment. Okay... so I'm a month late in writing this. But still... funny!!! Don't make me pull out my biology-ness on you...