The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 40, October 5, 2003, Article 8

NEW MAGIC BOOK DRYING POWDER

  "Super Slurper, a starch-based polymer with a powerful thirst,
  has been employed in diapers and filters, but researchers want
  to turn the page and develop a different application: drying
  waterlogged books.

  It may look like a nondescript powder, but a mere teaspoon
  of the stuff can absorb a gallon of water, sucking up over
  2,000 times its weight in water instantaneously."

  "... it is being re-designed to aid librarians and archivists in
  their battle against flood damage -- the bane of their
  information-storing endeavors."

  "Super Slurper hopes to remedy this problem by reducing
  the drying process from days to minutes. "With Super
  Slurper it takes roughly 10 minutes to dry each book. It's
  a quantum leap in the amount of time..."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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