What You See is What You Get With Intercept — Part 1

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 11:57 Written by Albert Greenhut Monday, 7 April 2014 03:17

Zebras have stripes unlike any other species. Humans haven’t been able to discern why for hundreds of years. I have been around zebras and have heard many theories, from guides, not from the zebras. One posed that the different colors created high and low pressures based on the heat they were absorbing and reflecting causing convection and air movement to keep them cool. Another posed that the stripes confused predators, because many predators have black and white vision, and a herd of zebra running would make it very hard for their eyes to pick out individual targets, essentially a camouflage due to the herding tendency of this animal. Both of these make sense to me, and I believe would make sense to anyone who has experienced a hot day or has watched a TV’s black and white static. But neither of these theories has been able to be proven.

A new theory has generated some proof, but instead of it being based on individual observations it is based on statistics. Researches have linked biting flies to why zebras have stripes. The researches have even linked different stipe patterns in zebras to areas with different distributions of biting flies. The zebra has short hair so it needs different ways to protect itself from biting flies, which the stripes provide in the form of making it difficult for flies to see landing areas on the animal.

With Intercept our active ingredient is copper particles reacted into a polymer structure. You can see the copper in our Corrosion Intercept and can see the darker color, caused by a higher copper loading combined with Copper Oxide (CMOS), in our Static Intercept films and bags. When the technology has gone past its effective life (up to or more than 20 years depending on the application and other variables) the Corrosion Intercept turns grey or white and the Static Intercept turns a jet black due to the Copper reacting with and permanently neutralizing corrosive gases (atmospheric pollution).  Like stripes protecting Zebras from biting insects, the neutralizing properties of the Copper protects the items inside the bags, wraps, or containers from the damaging effects of rust, corrosion and oxidation. There are no great mysteries with Intercept; its reactive barrier technology simply works.  Intercept Technology, simply better protection.

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