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(Or "Downy cocktail") Diluted fabric softenersprayed on computer room carpets to prevent static electricityfrom being built up by feet shuffling on carpet.The canonical cationic cocktail is one part unscented liquidfabric softener (in the US, usually "Downy" brand) to fiveparts water."Cationic" is the chemical term for the most common activeingredient in fabric softeners. The use of the term"cocktail" may be influenced by its use in other jargons,especially pharmacological and chemical, to denote a mixturewhich, like cationic cocktail, typically contains no alcoholand would be unwise to drink.