Eco-friendly acid dyeing of silk and wool fabrics using Acid Violet 49 dye.

The effluent load from textile industries has forced traders and industrialists to use sustainable tools that not only save energy, money, and labor but also make the process cleaner. The purpose of this study is to improve the dyeing of proteinous fabrics using Acid Violet 49 dye under microwave radiation. Aqueous and acidic dye solutions were prepared and treated with MW radiations for up to 10 min.

Surgical smoke; an occupational hazard.

Surgical smoke is part of the environment during operative and invasive procedures. Electric diathermy is a very important tool for a surgeon and is used in every surgical treatment nowadays. It assists the surgeon to dissect the tissue or enables securing haemostasis in lesser time and with larger delicacy.