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Is there a household method to decolorize potentially contaminated water?
I am living in my dorms at the moment and apparently it is an accepted thing that the water in the building is brown and yellow. According to my RA, this is a characteristic of the town I live in.
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Diamond filtering - is it real or bogus?
I always hear that some big corporations use "diamond dust" to filter water seven times to make "diamond clear" vodka. I tried googling something about using diamonds for filtering, but I could not ...
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Remove formalin from food using chemical found in kitchen
In some parts of the world food is stored with formalin so it looks fresh forever! This is astonishing, but true (See refs here). As formalin is very bad for health and damages kidneys and liver very ...
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Negative retention for chloride in hydrolysate filtration
I tried to fractionate proteins as a function of their size with an ultrafiltration membrane. I observed a higher concentration of chloride in my permeate than in my feed or retentate. The proteins do ...
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Why does activated carbon preferentially adsorb anions?
Brands like Brita and Pur (in the U.S.) have made a name for themselves for the ability of their product (essentially a large-pore filter with activated carbon/charcoal) to extract the added chlorine ...
