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Slippery surface could improve your toilet experience, why ice can be sticky or slippery

01 Dec 2023 Hamish Johnston
Slippery toilet
Slippery slope: a polymer coating made the toilet bowl on the left more slippery than the untreated one on the right. (Courtesy: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10.1021/acsami.3c11352)
Going into a public toilet is sometimes not for the faint hearted. Not only could there be visible e

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