On 4/3/2006 at 1:41 PM John Allain wrote:
Cotton must be phosphoric then. Hit it with a strobe
unit and it will glow for a second or two afterwards.
Somewhere I read that natural cotton right off the plant doesn't
fluoresce--it's the whiteners added (laundry detergent even has them) that
are added to make the cotton WHITE that are the culprit.
Cheers,
Chuck