
Ep. 379: Welcome to Gear Talk - MeatEater Network Debut
The MeatEater Podcast
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What's Micro Porous and Hydrophobic?
Micro porous is there's teeny teeny holes in it that won't let it drop up they're too small on a microscopic level for a drop of water to pass through it but they're large enough that condensing moisture vapor from your body like sweat can pass through it and escape the garment. Those layers are usually what's considered a hydrophobic layer and it sounds very technical but like it's a phobic it's like a phobia so the layer actually repulses it's like for life with better word scared it has a phobia of water and pushes water away from itself. That's kind of the really traditional type laminate you'll see in most garments.
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