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Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene
An anonymous reader writes "Graphene once again proves that it is quite possibly the most miraculous material known to man, this time by making saltwater drinkable. The process was developed by a group of MIT researchers who realized that graphene allowed for the creation of an incredibly precise sieve. Basically, the regular atomic structure of graphene means that you can create holes of any size, for example the size of a single molecule of water. Using this process scientist can desalinate saltwater 1,000 times faster than the Reverse Osmosis technique."
Using this process scientist can desalinate saltwater 1,000 times faster than the Reverse Osmosis technique.
Well isn't that swell for 'scientist', but does scientist plan to share?
God I loved "Top Secret"
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
I just wonder if a graphene membrane could filter out the words "awesomely", "incredibly" and "super" from awesomely incredibly super texts, leaving only texts. *That* would be quite useful.
Ezekiel 23:20
Once we figure out how to make nanobots out of stem cells and graphene, every problem known to humanity will be solved!
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Occasionally some gunk gets in there but it washes away sooner or later; and nothing spends any appreciable amount of time stuck in an individual graphene hole.
She was a real hot-shooter, that bubble. I should have known she'd be trouble from the get go; she was naturally "charged" as they say when they're trying to be polite.
With her bouncing around all over the place even at room temperature, I guess I should have seen it coming. But, as will happen to palookas and wishful thinkers, my hopes and processes got the best of me. I was convinced that any trouble would wash away as soon as it cropped She didn't even say goodbye, just left a note saying she'd thought she had found a solution with me, but couldn't stand the suspension and was afraid of becoming just another precipitate.
That was three years ago. I took the tube directly to this here graphene hole; it was the closest one I could find. I've been stuck here ever since.
The most useful substance never mass-produced.
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
Surely it won't last forever...
Yes, it will last forever, and don't call me Shirley.
Ah, so you're this guy:
http://gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/05/jordancolbert.jpeg
Water Molecule: 275 pico-meters
Ecoli Bacteria: 0.6 micro-meters (109,000x larger)
Rhinovirus: 30 nm (110x larger)
Rhinoceros: 4m (14,545,454,500x larger)
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
The metric system lacks fistfuls as a measure. I think we can all agree, it is incomplete and broken.