Candle Oil Is Coated With Shoes But Waterproof.

< p > last Saturday, Nanjing again ushered in rain, rain shoes became a lot of public travel equipment.

On the Internet, there is a hot note that as long as the candle oil is applied to the surface of shoes, it can be made into a pair of waterproof shoes.

According to the online post, the reporter brought a pair of old shoes experiments and found that the part of the wax oil can be waterproof. But is this waterproof effect really good? < /p >

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P, which is introduced in the online hot micro-blog, first of all, prepare a lighted candle, cotton swab and a pair of leather shoes. Next, use the cotton swabs to smear the candle oil evenly on the upper surface. In addition, scrape off the extra candle oil after finishing. After cleaning, blow the wax oil off with the electric hair dryer, so that the waterproof production process is finished.

Finally, the water is washed up and the water is not stained, so that "my mother no longer needs to worry that my shoes will get wet!" < /p >

< p > recently, the reporter took an old pair of yellow casual outdoor shoes to do some experiments. According to the steps in the post, the candles were lighted and the candles were smeared with candle oil to the upper.

Seemingly simple steps, but it is not easy to spread evenly, and small cotton swabs can not touch much candle oil.

When the reporter smeared and observed, he found that there were always tiny places that were not smeared, and some of them were thick and thin.

During the next waxing process, the reporter found that compared with other parts that had not been smeared with candle oil, the oiling part had darkened.

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< p > when all the steps were completed, the reporter put his shoes under the tap, and after that, he was still wet.

And other parts that are not oiled are already wet.

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< p > "wax is a hydrophobic material. It has certain effect on waterproofing." Zhang, a doctoral student in the Department of materials science and engineering, Nanjing University, told reporters that "the effect of waterproofing should be good, especially when the waxing process is sufficiently uniform and dense."

Moreover, Mr. Zhang explained that because wax is relatively stable in chemical properties, wax and shoes can not react, so the negative impact on the surface of shoes should be small.

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< p > waterproofing, what is the durability? Mr. Zhang told reporters that "only water in a short time".

It turns out that after long use, the viscosity of wax and vamp on shoes will be reduced, and surface wax may appear cracks, fine lines and micro stripes, and then fall off.

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< p > what is the principle of professional outdoor waterproof shoes on the market? The reporter consulted many outdoor shoe shop owners in Zhujianglu Road, although most shopkeepers said they had heard of the production of such waterproof shoes, but many shopkeepers said, "shoe waterproof generally refers to the increase of friction on the sole rather than the upper."

According to the introduction, professional mountaineering waterproof shoes are made of artificial leather mixed animal leather, but some types of waterproof shoes have poor air permeability. Therefore, when wearing waterproof shoes, mountaineers usually wear multiple pairs of shoes to avoid wearing foot odor.

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