{"id":399,"date":"2006-03-10T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/toothpaste\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T18:57:27","slug":"toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/toothpaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Toothpaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the main ingredient of toothpaste is wet sand? They call it \"hydrated silica\" on the ingredients list but that's actually what it is - a suspension of very fine grained silica (sand) particles in water. It's an abrasive - it gets into the tiniest cracks and scrapes out left-over food.<\/p>\n<p>A while back I was cleaning my keyboard (a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/misc\/nkpplan320.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a rather unsightly stain on the front part which had arisen through using the keyboard one too many times with hands greasy from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/sandwich\">cheese sandwiches<\/a>. It didn't come off with soap and warm water. I thought to myself \"I need some sort of fine abrasive, combined with some kind of detergent that is good for removing organic matter - ah, toothpaste!\". I scrubbed at the stain with some toothpaste and an old toothbrush and it came right out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the main ingredient of toothpaste is wet sand? They call it \"hydrated silica\" on the ingredients list but that's actually what it is - a suspension of very fine grained silica (sand) particles in water. It's an abrasive - it gets into the tiniest cracks and scrapes out left-over food. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}