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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 269755, member: 29"]Bananas actually give off ethylene, which is why you ought never to store them next to other fruit. Ethylene is used to ripen the unripe, so a banana can also be useful for that. It's feasible that the table had low levels of emitting ethylene<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" />lastics are, after all, composed of carbon/hydrogen chains, which when they degrade, give off organic gases. I think Formica has ethylene glycol in it, from (very old) memory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 269755, member: 29"]Bananas actually give off ethylene, which is why you ought never to store them next to other fruit. Ethylene is used to ripen the unripe, so a banana can also be useful for that. It's feasible that the table had low levels of emitting ethylene:plastics are, after all, composed of carbon/hydrogen chains, which when they degrade, give off organic gases. I think Formica has ethylene glycol in it, from (very old) memory.[/QUOTE]
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