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audreyann...

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Why is lint always a bluish color?

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kty2777

November 12, 2009 12:20 AM

It's suppose to be because that is the average color of the clothes in your laundry, or most laundry. But it can change depending on your clothes.

And that makes sense because if you wash a new rug the color of the lint definitely changes, but it still leaves vexing questions....about texture and consistency...

This is a must read link: its a debate from The Naked Scientist they discuss this in detail!
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/2400/

And this is just weird but funny
For a survey, and theories about Belly Button Lint ( BBL ) have a look at this site, really cool!
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/theories.htm

Now this is the color I think of for lint

http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsanityphotos/412160618/

but see, it can be red, or pink, or whatever!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/listorama/2315568246/

Edit: I found a blog about BBL - its funny
http://www.mywuchi.com/2009/01/18/lint-trap/

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November 12, 2009 12:42 AM

Where can I find a lint trap for my belly button?

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November 12, 2009 12:42 AM

+1 awesome comment of the week!

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jupiter2

November 12, 2009 02:29 AM

Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki has worked a bit on on this and he actually did win an IgNobel Prize for his lint research. But he says that for both belly button fluff and laundry lint, is actually an average of all the colours of your clothes. So all the stuff that comes off even your white laundry, will end up being sort of slightly grayish, bluish, horrible colour. And if you think about even if you do have a lot of black clothing, and I'm sure most people will have at least one item of black clothing, will tend to sort of fade to grey and those are the bits that are more likely to disintegrate and fall off and become lint.
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