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TIL boiling water can remove microplastics (pubs.acs.org)

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[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hard water specifically. I suppose that water softening is detrimental, then. I also wonder if this means microplastics can be used to remove lead by a similar mechanism. Maybe not considering that typical Pb levels are a lot lower than Ca in hard water.