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Disposable Chopstick Experiment

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One of my Singapore reader, motey, is interested in knowing about the disposable chopstick experiment. Still remember I shared an article on disposable chopstick? I didn’t try the experiment but Renge did it before. After gaining permission from her, I have translated here original post (in Chinese) on the findings and want to share it with all of you.

Although this is not the best translation, I do hope you can understand it. All photos and findings are credited to Renge. Photos can be clicked for larger view.

Not long ago, read an article called Chopstick Alert from Apple’s blog. The article is about the making of disposable chopstick (also known as hygene chopstick) and other related information. While cleaning my room, I found some disposable chopstick that I brought back from school. So, I decided to do the experiment.

This is the result of soaking the chopstick for one week. Do you see a layer of grease stain alike object on the surface?

Closer view.

In fact, the grease stain alike object is the dirt (impurity) left inside the chopstick After soaking, it will emerge to the water surface. As that layer of impurity will dissolove when being touched, I was not able to remove the whole piece of that “layer”.

The bottle contains the impurity layer and the water that used to soak the chopstick. The “layer” is transparent and is slightly light brown in color. The water is transparent as usual.

During the making of such chopstick, a lot of chemical has been used. So when doing this experiment, it’s better to put on your gloves during the whole process, to avoid skin allergy.

These are the chopstick that I used for the experiment. Around 24 of them.

I used the washroom of the upper level of my house as the “lab” (normally, no one use that washroom. So its safe there and nobody will complain me.) As a result, the “lab” was filled with exotic smell.

I believe that the smell is from the combination of the Sulphur, which is embedded in the chopstick, and the water, and release Sulpher Dioxide (SO2) which is harmful to our bodies.

Luckily, the smell was gone when I disposed all the chopstick.

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So tell me now, will you still use disposable chopstick eventhough it seems so convinent?

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