Super Slurper: From laboratory bench to library shelf.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-5 December 2006-US ARS: Super Slurper: From laboratory bench to library shelf(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05122006 Super Slurper, a cornstarch-based superabsorbent polymer invented by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists over 30 years ago, continues to fan the entrepreneurial spirit.

Take, for example, Nicholas Yeager, president of Artifex Equipment, Inc., a Penngrove, Calif., company specializing in book and document restoration. This fall, Yeager's company began mass-producing Zorbix, a sheetlike product based on Super Slurper that can dry out waterlogged library materials before destructive molds take hold. Zorbix's commercialization is the latest chapter in a storied history of Super Slurper spinoffs that followed...

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