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Banana Peels Can Purify Polluted Drinking Water, Scientists Say
August 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM
by Katie Robbins
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"Castro found that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur, and carboxylic acids, which, he noted, bind with positively-charged heavy metals often leached into water from mining or industrial runoff. Since many methods of removing metals from the water are expensive and toxic, Castro thought he might be on to a more natural method of cleaning drinking water."
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Link to full article:
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/banana-peels-purify-drinking-water-study?GT1=47001
This is a link to findings which were published in the Journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. This is reported to be a publication of the American Chemical Society.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie101499e?journalCode=iecred
August 15, 2011 at 7:30 AM
by Katie Robbins
snip....
"Castro found that banana peels contain nitrogen, sulfur, and carboxylic acids, which, he noted, bind with positively-charged heavy metals often leached into water from mining or industrial runoff. Since many methods of removing metals from the water are expensive and toxic, Castro thought he might be on to a more natural method of cleaning drinking water."
snip....
Link to full article:
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/banana-peels-purify-drinking-water-study?GT1=47001
This is a link to findings which were published in the Journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. This is reported to be a publication of the American Chemical Society.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie101499e?journalCode=iecred