{"id":1243,"date":"2010-08-01T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2010-08-01T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T17:44:43","slug":"chinese-wallboard-toxic-spills-deadly-gas-watch-out-fast-act-nanomaterial-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Wallboard, Toxic Spills, Deadly Gas: Watch Out! FAST-ACT Nanomaterial is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Boonsri Dickinson, SMART PLANET, July 30,2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"214\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a> <strong>Kenneth Klabunde<\/strong> was ahead of his time when he discovered a powder that could destroy a number of toxic chemicals in the early 1990s. The Kansas State University scientist was one of the first to develop nanomaterials capable of destroying toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>This FAST-ACT material was used to combat chemical warfare and was primarily used for military applications back then.<\/p>\n<p>The powder can be sprayed as a fire extinguisher, put into a bottle, or mixed as a liquid. \u201cWe did a lot of animal studies to show FAST-ACT wasn\u2019t harmful,\u201d Klabunde says, as it is made from magnesium and titanium.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that this material is finding other uses, particularly in the household. \u201cThose formulations are now being used in homes to take care of noxious odors,\u201d Klabunde says.<\/p>\n<p>During the housing boom, over 90 million pounds of tainted drywall were imported from China. It all starts with the smell of rotten eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it doesn\u2019t take much hydrogen sulfide to stink up a room with the smell of rotten eggs, corrode the pipes in the house, and sicken the people breathing the toxic gases.<\/p>\n<p>FAST-ACT is basically a glorified air freshener. \u201cWhen chemical odors come off of the drywall, our product will take those out [of the air] without requiring people to tear out the wall board [to deal with the Chinese drywall problem],\u2019 he says. And the powder does this irreversibly \u2014 so once the odor is gone, it is destroyed forever.<\/p>\n<p>Used cars and mortuaries could certainly use the odor-quenching material. \u201cIt\u2019s useful for anyone, including getting rid of your garbage smell,\u201d Klabunde says.<\/p>\n<p>The material is detoxifying, deodorizing, and safe to use \u2014 all functions that make it a perfect product for an infomercial. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/science-scope\/bye-bye-smelly-and-toxic-drywalls-nanomaterial-can-destroy-noxious-odors\/3233\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story and view videos]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nanomaterial that will combine with and transform dozens of volatile toxic chemicals into harmless substances actually exists and is coming to a toxic release near you. Read this article and see the videos and hope it really works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17,401],"tags":[642,645,644,641,643,399,640,646,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}