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		<title>How to Reduce Your Exposure to Toxic Flame Retardant in Your Mattress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The 2007 open flame mattress flammability standard, i.e. 16 CFR 1633, is draconian. There is one exception available. Almost no natural organic material can take open flame with temperature reaching 2000 celsius for 10 minutes, without itself burning out. Two common relatively fire-resistant material, wool and latex, do not even stand a chance. Wool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part IV–Final</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12. Don’t Regulators Know About All These? What are they doing? Yes, They do. They know well flame retardants are toxic and sleepers get a heavy dose of those everyday from sleeping on their mattresses. What they do is downplaying the risk and mandating more flame retardant be added. Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC) did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10. Next, Say Hi to Older Brother of Arsenic, Antimony Born into the same family of chemical elements, antimony shares a lot of arsenic&#8217;s chemical properties, including its toxicity to organism. However, it is less potent and also much less common in the environment than arsenic[1].  Thus it does not have as a prominent profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 6. Flame Retardants, Friend or Foe? Why Federal Government is So Into This? You probably start to wonder how polyurethane foam can be used at home at all, given its almost explosively nature under fire. Well, that is where a class of chemicals called flame retardant enters our bed. Its purpose is to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCBs, An Almost Indestructible Pale Liquid, Is It Really That Bad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. What is PCBs? PCBs(Polychlorinated biphenyls) is a pale liquid and extremely chemically stable under most conditions. Its destruction by any means is extremely difficult. 2. What was it used for? It was widely used in electrical equipment as insulator and coolant fluids. It was also used as flame retardant, 3. Why it is bad? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. How Important is Sleep in Your Life? How Big Deal is Your Mattress? Numerous researches have supported strong correlation between good sleep and life quality[1,2]. Chronic sleep loss fundamentally affects one’s health, contributing to weight gain, high blood pressure and deterioration of immune system’s power[3] It also adversely affects one’s mood, resulting in irritability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is that in your food? Arsenic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Arsenic? Why do I care? By the way, why is it in my food? Arsenic (As), is a chemical element which has similar chemical properties with phosphorus (P). However, unlike phosphorus which is an essential element for life, arsenic does not play any constructive role. Itself and many of its compounds are potent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tung Oil as Hardwood Floor Finish: My Experience (II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[B. Thinning of Tung oil Once the floor is sanded and all items are within arm’s reach, I proceeded to the next step which is thinning. Citrus solvent sold by realmilkpaint.com is chosen as the thinner, as pictured to the right(Courtesy of www.realmilkpaint.com). Citrus solvent is the the oil extracted from orange peel, i.e. citrus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tung Oil as Hardwood Floor Finish: My Experience (I)</title>
		<link>http://lesstoxicstuff.com/2011/07/hardwood-floor-finish-my-own-experience-in-applying-tung-oil-to-white-oak-hardwood-floor/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hardwood-floor-finish-my-own-experience-in-applying-tung-oil-to-white-oak-hardwood-floor</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Experiment of Tung oil on white oak wood sample Before deciding on Tung oil finish, I first chose white oak as hardwood material. White oak has a few major advantages as flooring wood. It is native to North America and abundant. It is impermeable to water due to its cellular structure. That makes it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tung Oil as Hardwood Floor Finish: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I. What is Tung oil? Where does it come from? Tung oil is the oil extracted from the seeds of tung tree(Vernicia fordii, pictured to the right)[wiki]. Tung oil got its spelling from its native name in China. This oil is a kind of drying oil which means after a long exposure to air, it [...]]]></description>
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