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Hello I have a question does glass leave any residue on your hands when you touch it. Such as when you touch a window or a bottle of soda? The reason for the querry curiosity, I have no particular backround other than I have suspected for years that glass may leave a residue either microscopic or macroscopic behind. thanks
Two situations involving glass with no other finish on it.
1. With regular glass, the residue will be 100% material deposited from the air or previous handling by human hands. Unless dirty, you leave a residue handling it more than the other way around.
2. If you could completely clean your hands (impossible) and completely clean the glass (almost impossible) and then touch it, you will scrub molecules of silicon dioxide from the surface due to the roughness of your hand. This will not even be near a visual microscopic amount and probably only measurable with very controlled advanced techniques (and maybe not measurable at all). Just a few molecules, if that much.
Note that I said no finish on the glass. Many vases and the like have finishes on them that create a different situation.
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