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Transparent wood anyone?

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Following on from the recent thread on timber buildings, I was interested when You Tube recently mentioned to me a video showing the presenter making some transparent wood.

In the video, the presenter mentions an article describing a process that has been developed which somewhat differs from the one he employed.. The article Is here:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/scienti ... -1.5902739

I’m not sure whether whether the use of hydrogen peroxide and epoxy resin is ecologically sound.

As a by the by, our eldest grandson, a chemist, has recently taken up employment with this company which, I assume, is gearing up to use the Maryland University process described in the article on an industrial scale.

https://www.woodoo.com/

Understandably, when I last spoke to him about his job, he couldn’t say much about it as he’s subject to a non-disclosure agreement.

Should anyone be interested in the You Tube video, it can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUU3jW7Y9Ak

I notice that the presenter has 4.9 million subscribers, that the video has been watched 17million times and that there are 23,500 comments.
 
Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) is definitely not ecologically sound and is also rather dangerous in quantity volumes - definitely fume hood only when using concentrated solution in our labs at work and all sorts of regulations around storage and containment!
 
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