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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Nanotechnology allows making more flexible carbon layers than ever before. And that allows producing active-carbon filters, what is feeling like normal clothes. This kind of filter-clothes can protect the user against many chemicals including VX, but they are breathing, that means those clothes would pass the air would go thru those layers, and use of those clothes is more comfortable than traditional protective suits. Those carbon suits are also immune for all chemicals what would normally pass the rubber, and that nanotechnological suit has one very good advantage in comparison with rubber suits.
They can dress up like normal overalls and they can use like every other clothes, but there is one big difference, that active carbon material protects against chemicals, and if gas mask protects the person against some chemical, would the active carbon protect also the man against some of the most poisonous chemicals. And the same technology could be used in protective tents, what mission is to protect the crew against chemical weapons. Those tents can be put in the hangars, and if the airfield would be protected against chemical weapons.
But this kind of constructions can also be used for civilian purposes. When the rescue crews are working in some area, there are lots of ruins or erupting volcanoes. That carbon material canvas can also be used for isolation the persons, who are infected by some organisms, what are using epidemic. In those protective materials is one little thing, what we must remember. There must be only carbon material, and there must not be plastic or rubber, because those materials allow the chemicals like organophosphates transferring to the body.
That can protect people against chemical weapons. But the light suit can be modular, and another suit, what is equipped with the gold leaf, can easily wear over that chemical protective suit. In the bottom of that suit could be Mylar-layer, what protects the gold against damages. That kind of suit protects the person against radio-active materials. The gold leaf can be installed between two layers of canvas, what allows to carry metal parts with it because otherwise, the gold can make other metals rusty because of the electrochemical reaction. This gold leaf suit would not let gases go thru it, and that will protect the user against ionized Helium, what is called an "Alpha-ray". Actually, the Mylar would give enough protection against helium, but the gold is needed for protection against electromagnetic radiation.
Ionized Helium would fly thru the active carbon filter, and that's why the personnel, who works with the highly radioactive material must use similar breath equipment as scuba divers. In those cases, the ionized gas would not go to the lugs of the operator. And the gold layer would protect the skin against the other radiation. That suit can be made by normal cotton or it can be used with the similar suit, what firemen use because that would give protection against the heat. And the gold is installed in the middle of two Mylar-layers, what protects it against damages.
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