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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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Science@beehaw.org · 10 months ago

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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Disturbing that micro plastics evaporate!

So if we just boil the ocean…
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  It doesn’t. Please read the article.
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  Well, not boiling, but we do heat it up
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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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