Alcohol is widely used for skin disinfection in medical environment. However
Researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new type of box that can prevent these uncomfortable shivers.
Inside the box is a device that heats alcohol cotton balls and then keeps them warm to narrow the temperature gap.
Its heating and insulation function is attributed to its special bottom, which has many holes and hot blocks distributed in intervals.
This special design ensures that each alcohol cotton ball placed in the box is evenly heated and kept warm.
After the design was completed, the team conducted a two-year trial and test to see how the device worked to narrow the temperature gap.
The box now is under further enhancement. As it cannot be used for heating the surgery alcohol cotton balls which require a "very high concentration," according to LIU Yingying, who led the team and is also a doctor.
Researchers in China believe they may have found a way of making beer good for you. Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences experimented on rats using a gene commonly found in humans and animals to turn alcohol into glycogen rather than fat in the rodents’ livers.
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