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Encyclopedia: Drinking straw

The drinking straw is a device used for sucking up a liquid - usually a drink. A thin tube of plastic (especially polystyrene) or other material, straight or with an accordion-like living hinge, it is employed by being held with one end in the mouth and another end in the drink. Muscular action reduces air pressure in the mouth, whereupon atmospheric pressure forces the drink up the straw. The first straws were made by the Sumerians, and used for drinking beer (as to avoid the solid byproducts of fermentation). Argentinians use a similar device called bombilla that acts as both a straw and sieve for drinking mate tea. The modern drinking straw was patented in 1888 by Marvin C. Stone.

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How to say "Drinking straw" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	吸管
	(Japanese)	ストロー
	(German)	Trinkhalm

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Pixy Stix

A Pixy Stix is a Willy Wonka brand powdered candy packaged in a wrapper not unlike that of a drinking straw. It is popular during Halloween. It is frequently misspelled "Pixie Stix" or "Pixi Stix". Pixy Stix in popular culture The Breakfast Club - Ally Sheedy's character has a memorable scene in...

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Caipirinha

, stirs, and adds crushed ice. The drink is served in low wide glasses with short drinking straws...

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Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille

lung alveoli, for the flow through a drinking straw or through a hypodermic needle. He died in Paris...

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Cow Parsnip

used as drinking straws for the old or infirm, and to make flutes for children. A yellow dye can be...

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Plastic

, drinking straws PS - Polystyrene , Commonly found on: packaging pellets or "Styrofoam peanuts," cups... dentures. However, celluloid dentures tended to soften when hot, making tea drinking tricky, and... plastics and so is a popular material for making bottles for Coca-Cola and other "fizzy drinks", since...

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