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ProfessorGAC

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24. The Mechanism Described...

Tue Dec 22, 2020, 09:13 PM

Dec 2020

...is nearly identical to what's called "capping" in polymer chemistry.
Capping a polymer stops continued growth of molecular weight on polymers not reaction limited by scale. (Polyethylene, for example.)
The chemistry is similar here in that it closes the reactive site on the virus.
Once, those electrons have conformed, no other reaction, absent extreme conditions, can occur.
This is a very interesting finding.
Something we could not have done 20 years ago, as the resolution to characterize those nano agents didn't exist.
Would have been strictly theoretical, but not testable.

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