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@ZeroCool@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.org • 1 year ago

Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

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Boiling tap water can remove 90 percent of microplastics

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@ZeroCool@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.org • 1 year ago
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Tiny plastic particles float inside tap water, and it's still unclear how they impact our health. But boiling the water for 5 minutes could remove most of them, a new study finds. most of them
  • Seraph
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    Disturbing that micro plastics evaporate!

    So if we just boil the ocean…

    • BolexForSoup
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      It doesn’t. Please read the article.

    • DarkGamer
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      The oil industry is doing all they can!

    • @P1r4nha@feddit.de
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      Well, not boiling, but we do heat it up

    • k_rol
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      It bonds with calcium but then they don’t say why it’s not an issue anymore. Does it become a super stable particle? I don’t fully get it.

      • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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        They say filter out the calcium

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