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Nano-Silver's Potential to Reduce Local Pollution

I'm wearing a pair of catalytic jeans as we speak. My trousers will take out about 5 grams of nitric oxide a day when you need 4 pairs of jeans to clean up after a car and 25 pairs of jeans for a bus. Nano-silver's become really, well I don't want to make the pump but quite embedded in clothing technology now. So what about other technologies that I believe you can make smellproof socks as well? There'll be lots of them under the Christmas tree this year.

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