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Flushing sprays countless particles invisible to the naked eye into the air around the toilet. Some of these tiny droplets may be contaminated with pathogens.
IT'S something we all do, twice a day (hopefully) without fail.But in your quest for pearly whites, it turns out you might be inadvertently putting yo
After you use the restroom and reach for the handle to flush, do you stop and make sure to close the toilet lid first? Well, after learning about this new research conducted by engineers from the
Though the experiments were conducted with toilets empty of all but clean water, Crimaldi strongly suspects that adding toilet paper and human waste only injects more chaos and energy into a flush.
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have confirmed what the germ-phobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like cloud of tiny droplets and aerosol particles that reaches more than 5 feet above the seat.