Published 22:08 IST, March 26th 2020

Former NASA scientist uses ‘glow powder’ to show how quickly germs can spread, watch video

A video has surfaced on the internet which shows a former NASA scientist  Mark Rober using ‘glow powder’ to show just how quickly germs can spread.

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A video has surfaced on internet which shows a former NASA scientist  Mark Rober using ‘glow powder’ to show just how quickly germs can spread. shocking video will change how you view germs and cleanliness forever and how important it is to wash your hands on a regular basis. As per reports, experiment takes place in a third-grade classroom in San Francisco. 

In video, Rober uses a special type of fluorescent dust, called Glo Germ which shows up underneath a UV light. In beginning of experiment, scientist, who has dust already on her hands, shakes hands with three different students and leaves it at that. n, just a few hours later, he used his special UV flashlight to show just how much 'germs' had spread.

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Video goes viral

powder shows up on sink, phone, bins, walls, desks, paper towels and even or children and teacher's face. 
1-minute video has mand to garner 11,014,590 views on YouTube and was posted on March 18. It has also garnered 25,670 comments. A user wrote, “ kid who wanted to shake teacher's hand but she denied is literally me”. Ar wrote, “Mark: Posts video about how to prevent virus spreading.”Ar commented, “I feel bad for kid that wanted to shake teacher’s hand”. Ar wrote, “I don’t think teacher understood what “randomly shake 3 kids hands” meant”. 

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Precautions to contain spread of virus

From greetings without touch to constant awareness about keeping hands clean, scare due to deadly coronavirus outbreak has led people to take all precautions to contain spread. Recently, as people are started mentioning excessive loss of water along with hand sanitizers being out of stock, one Twitter user posted an im of a foot-operated tap which is hailed as “brilliant idea”, especially during se times. While some doctors have also said that such taps are in use for more than two decades in operation atres, Twitter users called it “great in COVID-19 days”. 

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Pic Credit: Mark Rober/YouTube

22:15 IST, March 26th 2020