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The
Science behind the challenge:
The quotation below is an excerpt from the March 8,1999 issue
of Chemical Engineering News, a weekly publication serving
the chemical industry.
"Sandia
National Laboratories chemist Maher E. Tadros, in protective
gear, sprays a foam that he and Sandia chemist Mark D. Tucker
have developed to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare
agents. The foam is a combination of a mild nucleophile such
as hydrogen peroxide carbonates commonly found in toothpaste,
a positively charged non-toxic surfactant often found in hair
conditioners, and hydrotropes found in detergents. Hydrotropes
found in detergents solubilize and catalyze the neutralization
or the agents.
The
foam reacts rapidly with the agents. is non-toxic and non-corrosive
and could be produced at a cost of 75 cents per pound. Illinois
Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago conducted testing
of the foam against the nerve gases VX and Soman and against
mustard gas because Sandia can only use simulants. The half-life
of the reaction is in the neighborhood of 2-10 minutes, Soman
being neutralized very quickly and mustard gas reacting much
more slowly," Tadros explains. The foam has been shown
by NMR to cleave the P-S bond in the agents. Using a simulant
for the biological warfare agent anthrax, the foam achieved
a 7-log kill; meaning only one anthrax spore per 10 million
is alive after one hour. IIT will test live anthrax next month.
How the spores are killed is not known. Researchers speculate
that the surfactants damage the spores' protective protein
wall and allow the nucleophiles (oxidizing agents) attack
the genetic material inside.
The
foam's development is part of the Department of Energy's Chemical
& Biological Nonproliferation Program.
The
article discloses a product developed by Sandia
Labs
for the Biological and Chemical Warfare Division of he US
Army under the auspices of the DOE. The product is a combination
of a peroxide gel found in toothpaste, a foaming agent commonly
used in fire fighting, and a FDA approved food grade surfactant
commonly found in shampoo conditioners and different food
stuffs and hydrotropes found in detergents. Obviously the
product neutralizes the most potent nerve toxins and airborne
pathogens known to man. The product acts to neutralize these
agents and cleanse them from the skin like an antibacterial
soap. But it is not soap. We spoke with one of the product
developers, Dr. Mark Tucker. His explanation was that the
peroxide gel, an oxidizing agent in conjunction with the surfactant
and hydrotrope, surrounds the organism or chemical agent,
oxidizes it and will not allow it to interact with it's environment,
effectively neutralizing the toxic agent. The surfactant hydrotrope
combination is apparently very effective in seeking out only
toxins and gram-positive pathogens. This is not an antioxidant
action - quite the opposite, if peroxide is present. Likewise,
it appears we are looking at the missing ingredients in peroxide
and ozone therapy that would keep these strong oxidizers from
harming the body after they have oxidized pathogens and oxygenated
the body - the surfactant and hydrotrope. Surfactants have
been used in fuel cells in lieu of salt to catalyze the electrolytic
reaction and could do the same for ozone therapy machines.
We know that the body's T-cells dispatch pathogens with peroxide
and we know that the body and cells manufacture and use surfactants
in places like the lungs to regulate oxygen-carbon-dioxide
exchanges and at the surface of the cell wall to reduce surface
tension in the water layer surrounding the cell membrane.
This is necessary for cellular functioning and communications.
Could it be that the surfactant in the lungs has an anti-microbial
and anti-toxin function that has eluded science to date? It
would appear that biochemists as well as the medical community
might have missed these connections in terms of a surfactant-hydrotrope
role in human health.
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