Re: What about suntan oil?

[Doppler Dog <doppler_dog@my-deja.knickers.com>]

Sing, O Goddess, of a post by "Hilary M. Turner"<hilarymichael@ozemail.com.au>,
that terrible curse that brought unnumbered woes upon USENET, and hurled to
Hades many brave bytes, making the electrons the carrion of dogs and vultures:


> As for natural. Plastic is natural with other natural products to
> produce an unnatural substance. 

You're arguing then that plastic is both natural and unnatural.  On this
planet, such an argument would not be considered coherent.  I'll ignore
this bit.

> Therefore if you use unnatural
> products on other natural products you generally get a reaction
> which is detrimental to both. Where if you use a natural product, or
> mostly natural product say 80 to 90% natural, the reaction will be
> far less aggressive and short lived.

So when I take a piece of coal ("natural"), and have it react with
oxygen ("natural") in a fire, it is not detrimental or agressive?
Whereas on the other hand, dunking a piece of foam ("unnatural") in a
glass of water ("natural") produces an explosively agressive reaction?


> Plastics are made from crude
> oil, a naturally occurring substance. Lemon and coconut oils, a
> another naturally occurring substance, do not blend or brake up
> oil. They do not bond with with plastic. 

Some oils do react and soften some plastics, sorry to ruin your
theory.

Are you really suggesting that "natural" substances don't react
with each other?  Are you SURE you want to go there?  That is just
so wrong it's not even funny.

> Instead they would add
> those molecules which the plastic has lost. 

And these are....?  Please enlighten me on the nature of these "lemon
molecules" and "coconut molecules".

> This occurring over
> time. Or prevent the lose of more of it's molecular structure by
> creating a bearer not bonding and changing the structure adversely.
> 
> If you would like to know more got to Collage and take Chemistry
> Doppler Dog.
> 

Oh boy.  I did take university chemistry, Hilary.  As for "collage",
I did some of that in high school art, but I'm sorry to say my art
career stopped there.

As for your explanation of "natural" vs. "unnatural" products and
their relation, I would really like to know what sort of chemistry
textbook you got this from.  Was it in magazine format, and did it
have action heroes on it?

I should know better than argue with someone who claims that plastics
are "natural", but I guess I have more time today than usual.  Maybe
I'm wrong and plastics are harvested from plastic tree plantations. :)


> >
> > > Anything with lemon, coconut oil would be good to try as natural is best
> > > Good idea!
> > >
> > >

> >
> > I find the "natural is best" argument a little hard to fathom.
> > Hemlock is natural, 7-UP isn't.  AFAIK no-one's died from 7-UP.
> >

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