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		jbay808 on May 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant... Since a filter sorts particles from air molecules, this would imply that the hardest particles to filter are just a couple atoms large.

mokus on May 16, 2020 [–]

To be fair, that’s probably true. It’s just that the particles at that scale are other molecules and they are indeed very hard to filter out mechanically.

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