Fake Snow from Potato Starch · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 23, 2002 @12:59AM from the can-you-deep-fry-it dept.

Makarand writes "According to this article on Nature.com German chemists have created a new biodegradable type of fake snow from potato starch for the film industry. Most artificial snow types are plastic and it is impossible to pick up all the snow flakes scattered on film sets. The new snow presents no such problems. A good soaking is all that is needed to dissolve these biodegradable snow flakes. The process involves using starch from corn, potatoes or seaweed and puffing it up to make a spongy foam resembling snow."

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Re:Fake Potato by exploder · 2002-12-23 03:38 · Score: 4, Informative

Riiight...because as we all know, the reason people are hungry is because there just isn't enough food to go around.

Idiot.

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