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From: Pav <bobhog@pin.co.nz> Hi folk, catching up on old emails... At 7/03/01 09:33:00, Dee wrote: [regarding sun bleaching/purifying
wax] Have to contradict here. UV penetrates glass close to 100% Plastics however absorb (therefore do not transmit) UV, and are degraded by it. Anyone wearing plastic-lenses spectacles has the benefit of a UV block, even without needing a tint (and so may be delaying getting cataracts as we all inevitably do from sun UV if we live long enough). Glass lenses have no such benefit unless coated. On a different branch of this
same thread, Dee seems to be giving Trevor the 3rd degree about
Aussie wax. Gotta pipe up in support of me Oz neighbour (uncharacteristic
for a Kiwi...). To my knowledge (as Trevor had already mentioned
but seems to have been lost in the subsequent detail), Oz honeys
mostly come from native trees (as is also the case (though dare
i say to a lesser degree?) here in New Zealand - different tree
species though - NZ and Oz maybe be neighbours but there's still
the world of difference - 'cept Tazzy[mania] maybe) and as such
hives for honey are mostly in remote, natural (read: "no
chemicals used") environments. Also being in the sparsely
populated oceanic southern hemisphere the general enviromental
contaminant level is low (no acid rain here - i recall seeing
an article that suggested a little acid rain would actually be
beneficial to NZ's usually alkali soils...), and being 'westernised'
nations (despite being hard up against the EASTERN edge of the
-Pav, living in a glasses house... __________________________________ |