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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
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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.

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      They say filter out the calcium

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