Polyester clothes smell worse than cotton, following intensive exercise by their wearers, because bacteria that cause odor grow better on polyester, according to research. Freshly secreted sweat has ...

This article was originally published with the title “On the Grains of Silica and Micrococci of the Atmosphere” inSA Supplements Vol. 11 No. 272supp(March 1881), p.

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