Re: Do you have anything in how fast diapers absorb and why?

The companies that make Huggies and Pampers have websites, at

www.huggies.com for Huggies and at

www.pampers.com for Pampers.

These disposable diapers are made of wood cellulose fiber (a fluffy paper-like material), and a superabsorbent material called polyacrylate. More information on this can be found at http:// www.huggies.com/faqs/index.html, where you can also submit your own questions directly to the company.

Diapers (the non-disposable sort) tend to be made of cotton - which also consists of cellulose fiber. Cellulose is like a long change of sugar; whereas small sugar molecules dissolve in water, cellulose is too long of a molecule to dissolve in water. Like sugar, cellulose does have a lot of -O-H bonds (oxygen bonded to hydrogen), which is similar to the -O-H bonds in water (H-O-H, or H2O). Water molecules tend to attach to -O-H bonds; in small sugar molecules, the waters surround and dissolve the sugar. In cellulose, and probably in polyacrylate as well, the water molecules surround the -O-H bonds, but can't dissolve these large molecules - so the water is absorbed.

To find out how fast diapers absorb click on the ask questions icons on the following web sites: To find out how fast Huggies and Pampers absorb liquid, click on the ask questions icons on the following web sites: Huggies-www.huggies.com Pampers-www.pampers.com. You can type in your question and send it to them, and they will be able to supply you with the information. To find out the superabsorbant material in Huggies diapers go to the Huggies web site listed above, click on FAQs, and click on the question about what materials are diapers made from.