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Do not wipe toilet seat with toilet paper: Japanese maker (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And if paper that immediately dissolves when wet scratches the seat; maybe use better materials.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

You don't clean plastic lens spectacles with paper as paper will scratch the lenses, though glass lenses can be wiped with paper. Wood is harder than plastic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

Toilet paper is wood, while the seats are plastic. Wood is a 2.5-ish on the mohs scale, and plastics tend to be too. So they scratch at a 2.5 ~~with deeper grooves at a level 3~~, even on a micro scale. The alternative is to use ceramics for the seat, but the fragility means one rough drop of the seat and it could shatter. Metals are generally no better.