And added said material to somebodies laundry surreptitiously, will it have the effect I'm thinking it will?

ei, convert the cellulose in the cotton of the fabric in the wash to beta-glucose? (Halloween prank in the works.)

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Your planning on digesting someone laundry? That's a mean prank, BigDon. Tell me how it works out.

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Looks like the guys in the lab coats have thought about adding cellulase to laundry, with more benevolent intent.

Susumu Ito et al. "Alkaline Cellulase for Laundry Detergents: Production by Bacillus sp. KSM-635 and Enzymatic Properties", Agric. Biol. Chem., 53(5), 1989, pp. 1275-1281.

[...] Shikata et al., "Alkaline Cellulases for Laundry Detergents: Production by Alkalophilic Strains of Bacillus and Some Properties of the Crude Enzymes", Agric.Biol.Chem., 54(1), 1990, pp. 91-96.

Specialty Enzymes and Biochemicals Co.

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Sure. Now all you have to do is pump the rumen of a cow.

Good luck!

Or live in the largest biotech area in the world and know a organic chemistry supply dealer?

Industrial cellulase (don't know what they purposely use it for) is NOT a very good laundry additive.

Darn near ruined the washing machine for one.

(And no, I'm not mean. It was a load of whites* and I had already bought replacement socks, t-shirts and underwear. The ones I destroyed were a long running joke that this made a fitting punchline for. The guy hadn't bought new underwear since the Clinton administration, and bragged about it at the wrong time.)

Took me all afternoon to get the fibers and gunk out of everything though. Had to run it empty three times before I was happy everything was safe again.





*Okay, greys then.

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Yeah, that might work, too!

Have you considered using an ionic liquid? They show great promise for use in cellulose processing.

Every once in a while I'll take laundry by the folks for an excuse to say "Hi!" I have to watch Mom carefully, as she'll dry underwear and socks on plasma torch high, ruining any hope of socks staying up or underwear doing what underwear should do. I tell you, that dryer could scortch wool!

No chemicals, though...

Just convince some jocks that you are filming "Silent Library" and have them eat some. Call it hemp.

Whether he helps clean up the mess he made after the joke's been played, that's the mark of a good practical joker as opposed to an inconsiderate jerk who needs to be hit repeatedly in the face with a golf club.

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Well, as far as practical jokes go, this was a three, on a scale of one to ten.

One, the victim didn't know what the heck happened. (Not the usual way in practical jokes) It never crossed his mind that his clothes had partially dissolved. He thought somebody was being a jerk and dumped some paper and lint in his wash.

There is a difference between a practical joke and just being mean to someone. This was just too vague and a hell of a mess.

Not at all like unscrewing the light in the bathroom and then putting a layer of plastic wrap over the toilet bowl, (after lifting both seats.) That works best against guys BTW.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

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