COLORADO: The powerful spray of water from a toilet's flush tank sends invisible particles of waste far and wide, and for the first time, experts have shown it by taking pictures of them with a powerful laser.
That is, when you flush the toilet, invisible particles of human excrement are carried along with water droplets to such a height that they hover around your clothes. It is highly likely that public toilet flushes can further spread outbreaks, meaning that if some people are exposed to diseases that can be spread through faeces, the possibility exists.
University of Colorado professor John Cremoldi and his colleagues have captured images of extremely fine droplets that are invisible under normal conditions during a powerful laser flush.
Although toilets are designed in such a way that both water and waste go downwards, the forceful shock of the water from the flush throws up very fine particles based on particles of human waste. This is because modern commercial flushes produce high-velocity winds that can reach speeds of up to two meters per second. In this way, the toilet particles go up to a height of one and a half meters and this process takes place only 8 seconds after pressing the flush button.
Experts have studied them by running several flushes with the help of a powerful laser and advise that the lid of the commode must be closed while flushing. After laser imaging, experts have also used computer models to predict their distant spread.
According to epidemiologists, fine droplets of water can contain all kinds of bacteria and germs. These germs can cause covid-19 and flu etc. Can persist even after frequent flushing with fine particles of human waste.
