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A Little Science Experiment
So I just found out something that I am going to have to try soon. Apparently if you pull duct tape apart quickly in the dark, it turns blue. This is an example of triboluminescence, which is a glow given off when certain materials are under mechanical stress or friction. I haven’t tried this yet,…
Massive Duct Tape
I already shared this on my Facebook, but since I like to blog about duct tape, I decided that I’d better share it here as well. Last week we stopped at Uncle Stan’s Military Surplus for no particular reason and guess what I found. Massive rolls of duct tape! And only $8.50 each! Now they…
Just a Fact About Duct Tape
In the 1940s, Vesta Stoudt, an employee at an ammunition packing plant in Illinois and a mother with two boys in the Navy, wrote a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that ammunition cases be sealed with a “strong cloth tape.” The U.S. military then asked Johnson & Johnson to create a waterproof, cloth-based…

