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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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    Would that just mean boiling water and then filtering it?

    If so, doesn’t seem as misleading so much as just missing an extra step for a headline. Edit: of course, in addition to the hard water specification.

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      gotta make the water hard too, doesn’t work without hard water

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        But I can’t even make myself hard 😭

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          too soon.

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        Many regions won’t need that of course :)

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