We're literally going back to serfs boiling water to make it drinkable.

I'm a liberal sorry https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water

  • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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    1 month ago

    Does boiling it even help or are they talking about boiling as a step in distillation

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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      1 month ago

      boiling precipitates the water's minerals onto the microplastic, making it bigger (and easier to filter)

      that's why it works better with hard water than soft

      • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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        1 month ago

        Oh okay so it's just a maybe useful pre-filtering step that will likely still not remove all the plastic

        Thanks for reading for me so my vibes based science is more informed

    • Storm [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water