Paper Towel History

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Paper towels Paper towels are modern way of a dish cloth. They were invented by accident in 1907. It was first introduced to help little kids with infection control when they had colds. He heard about a teacher who gave kids a soft paper so that the roller towels in the toilettes would not get infected with germs. He sold them and called them disposable paper towels. Later he called it Sani-Towels. Then in 1931 he made the first paper towel. They were not very popular because people were so used to dish cloths. Paper towels took a long time to get popular but are now more popular than dish cloths. (Great Idea Finder, http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/papertowel.htm)
Paper towels have a special way of being made. They are made of office paper waste. The waste is brought to a factory. First it goes through a large machine called a pulper. This breaks up the paper into fibers. Next it mixes the fibers with water which makes a mixture called pulp. Then it goes through a filter that takes out objects that are not paper such as: plastic and staples. Following it goes through a instrument that takes out the ink by injecting air into it. Then goes through a press that compresses all of the water from the fibers. A screw conveyer then breaks up the pulp. Then it is whitened with a
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All living things, including plants, cannot survive without water. When two hydrogen atoms bond with an oxygen atom, it makes a water molecule, a short way of saying this is H2O. The one thing about water that causes many of its unusual properties is that water molecules are polar because of the electrical charged areas. This means that the molecules have a negative side and a positive side. In every water molecule it has two positive charged hydrogen atoms and one negative charged oxygen atom. The unusual properties of water are usually caused because the attraction of the positive hydrogen side attracts to the negative (Simons & Wellnitz,