#heavy metals

[praguehead]

"Fluid as water, brilliant as silver, heavier than lead, mercury spills through a mine worker's fingers."

National Geographic

October 1972

ph. Robert W. Madden

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new sponge that can remove metals -- including toxic heavy metals like lead and critical metals like cobalt -- from contaminated water, leaving safe, drinkable water behind.

In proof-of-concept experiments, the researchers tested their new sponge on a highly contaminated sample of tap water, containing more than 1 part per million of lead. With one use, the sponge filtered lead to below detectable levels.

After using the sponge, researchers also were able to successfully recover metals and reuse the sponge for multiple cycles. The new sponge shows promise for future use as an inexpensive, easy-to-use tool in home water filters or large-scale environmental remediation efforts.

The study was published late yesterday (May 10) in the journal ACS ES&T Water. The paper outlines the new research and sets design rules for optimizing similar platforms for removing -- and recovering -- other heavy-metal toxins, including cadmium, arsenic, cobalt and chromium.

Read more.

[unsympatheticchemprof]

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[lasseling]

Moms Across America Tested New Children’s Cereal & Found Poisons Like Heavy Metals, Arsenic, Aluminum, Cadmium, 8 Different Pesticides (Some Known To Change Sex Hormones) & More

All this in 1 cereal box

Testing reveals ‘General Mills Trix Loaded Cereal’ is actually “loaded with heavy metals and pesticides” also contains “Artificial dyes, preservatives, chemicals” - We found arsenic and cadmium 200-400% higher than what the EPA allows in drinking water - We found aluminum levels to be 1,365% to 1,650% higher than what the EPA allows in drinking water - We found glyphosate levels 158 to 174 times higher than has been shown in animal studies to cause sex hormone changes and organ damage when animals ate 0.1 parts per billion of glyphosate for 2 years of the glyphosate herbicide, the the formulation. And we also found 8 different pesticides. One of them is an ingredient used in shampoo that kills lice, and the other one is a fungicide known to cause endocrine disruption and hormone disruption in humans and wildlife at very low levels. So, clearly, this is not a great way to start your day with toxic chemicals, and we call on General Mills to get to the source of why their cereal is so contaminated and to do things like test fertilizers because we think that's the source of the heavy metal contamination. This is a very serious issue because heavy metals can cause neurological damage and developmental disorders that can be lifelong. So this is very serious. We are in a national physical and mental health crisis in America, and we need manufacturers like General Mills who have the resources to actually do something about cleaning up their the food supply and the products that they offer.“

[healthtruth101]

The Shocking Truth About Heavy Metals… and How To Protect Yourself!

Heavy Metals are in just about everything... Watch this video to find out WHERE they are, HOW they are entering your body, and most importantly, how you can detox and protect yourself right now!   

 Are you suffering from heavy metal toxicity? You may have chronic symptoms like fatigue and brain fog, which can be caused by heavy metals. If you have any chronic symptoms, it may be worth it to take steps toward detoxing from heavy metals and avoiding them in the future so that you feel better.

[realityreaperr]

Anyone else have consumed a heavy metal in the past month?

Hey. Kinda weird question but I’ve never been the smartest… one thing I DID catch in science class though was heavy metals are BAD for you😅😅😅… Does anyone know how to determine if theyve been in contact with a heavy metal… or stuff… this summer I’ve been huge into fishing so IDK. I’m not picky on what I eat. Help? Haha.

[indizombie]

Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet, with an estimated 4.5 trillion disposed of improperly every year, many of which end up in our waterways. Nicotine, pesticide residues and heavy metals leach from butts into the water, poisoning fish and the microorganisms on which they feed. But that isn’t all - cigarette filters are also made of a form of plastic which degrades into microplastics. As well as being consumed by fish, recent reports suggest that microplastics have now been found in human blood and organs. Whilst the health effects of this plastic accumulation are as yet unknown, we do know that microplastics cause damage to human cells in laboratory settings.

‘Plastics, the Environment and the Tobacco Industry’, Tobacco Tactics

[boxedforyourdemise]

*thinking about the Hershey's dark chocolate bars I have in the freezer*

Uh oh

Fuck. I love dark chocolate tho.

Also I only use chrome for basic shit. I have a different browser that's completely disconnected from Google that I use as my main lol

[rjzimmerman]

I was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. During that period, the US Steel plant was the largest in the world and was producing tons of steel, and emitting tons of shit into the air and into the water. This article tells me that the crap they’re discovering in Pittsburgh applies equally to several cities in northwest Indiana, including Gary, and anyplace else in the US that have a history of steel production. Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Pittsburgh’s soil is contaminated in some areas by five toxic metals emitted by historic coking and smelting from the region’s now-diminished coal and steel industry, according to a new study by geologists at the University of Pittsburgh.

In a city with a history of air pollution so bad that a 19th-century writer for The Atlantic magazine called it “hell with the lid taken off,” the study shines a light on the legacy of more than a century of steel making in western Pennsylvania.

It found arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in soils, especially in the eastern half of Pittsburgh, where the contaminants had likely been blown by prevailing winds, and trapped by the city’s temperature inversions which keep pollution close to the ground beneath an upper layer of warm air.

“Along with worsening air pollution…inversions may have given heavy metals from historic industrial sites a chance to settle from the air into the soil,” the university said in a press release this week.

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and the Allegheny County Conservation District collected samples from 56 sites, including parks and cemeteries that were away from other contamination sources such as roads, roofs or gutters. Their findings were correlated by University of Pittsburgh researchers to sources of industrial pollution, and published in July by the journal Environmental Research Communications.

The paper is believed to be the first anywhere to examine the legacy of decades of industrial pollution on soils, the authors said.

“This is the first study we know of that samples/measures background soils, maps them, and then uses source signatures to understand background patterns in soil chemistry,” they wrote in an email.

Still, the study did not identify any harms to human health or the natural environment. Maxim said there are too many variables, such as whether soil gets in the human mouth or whether the digestive system can separate the toxic metal, to draw any conclusions about whether the metals have negative health effects.

[davecottrell]

Finally Getting Great Tasting Drinking Water in 2023

Finally Getting Great Tasting Drinking Water in 2023 Great tasting drinking water is something that’s easy to take for granted when you have it. But there are a lot of places in the world where the available water, even if perfectly safe, is anything but great tasting! Dease Lake is one of those places. Tātl’ā (Dease Lake) from the lookout Most people in Dease Lake draw their water for everyday…

[awesomecooperlove]

CHEMTRAILS

[materialsscienceandengineering]

New technology more efficiently removes heavy metals from water

As freshwater scarcity affects millions worldwide, scientists and engineers have looked for new ways of filtering unwanted metals and minerals out of water while retaining those elements for re-use elsewhere.

Capacitive deionization (CDI), a technology in which a membrane made from electrode materials removes metal ions from water, has proved a promising technique for such next-generation water filters. Researchers from University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory envisioned the technique could be made even more efficient if they modified the molecular surface of the electrodes.

With support from University of Chicago's Joint Task Force Initiative, three researchers investigated the best way to alter these surfaces. Junhong Chen, Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering at UChicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne, collaborated with two Argonne colleagues: scientist Maria Chan and senior physicist Chris Benmore. Using experimentation, machine learning, and powerful X-rays, they developed a CDI device that adsorbed lead much more efficiently than before.

Read more.

[alkalineliving]

[chloeworships]

God told me to remove ALL the mercury fillings from my teeth because they were poisonous so I’m passing the message on. He was firm with me about it too 🦷 WOW 😯

Having these heavy metals in our bodies leads to too many health problems (both mental and physical) to count. They also cause infertility and birth defects amongst other issues.

Thank you Father for this divine revelation… you are indeed to Greatest Physician 🩺

[jbfly46]

I try not to use tap water if at all possible, even though I moved to Portland, OR where they supposedly don’t put fluoride in the water.