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		thinkingemote on Feb 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oregon has first confirmed Covid-19 case Soap is mechanical. So you need to rub every part of surface it's not about time.

TheAdamAndChe on Feb 29, 2020 [–]

The soap also takes time to work. Soap binds to or encapsulates nonpolar molecules in a polar envelope, allowing nonpolar things to be washed away by water. That encapsulation takes a little bit of time.

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