| The regular sand often used to filter water is typically too coarse to catch all of the nasties passing by, and its filtering capabilities are overloaded fairly quickly. The Rice-developed sand, coated with graphite oxide, can trap more contaminants for a longer period of time. |
amazing stuff, is it Clean water or clean drinkable water?
because stuff like this would be amazing stuff.
Of Course That's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong
| mchaza said: clean drinkable water |
Random tips.
Rice have a nice property that people don't know about (except maybe the Asian people).
When you cook the rice, the water that you drain from rinsing it before refilling water to cook.
That drained water, you can use to wash your face instead of using chemical solution.
Clean water is increasingly hard to come by in many parts of the world so anything that can help better filter water is a good thing in my book
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Rice also needs clean water to grow, LOL. Catch 22.
Hmm, maybe I'm not understanding this right, but what is the benefit from mixing rice with the sand? Is there a special property in rice that causes the toxic molecules to be attracted to it? If so, what is this property. Because if the regular filter paper isn't sufficient enough since it can't trap the smaller toxic molecules, couldn't they simply make the "gaps" in the filter paper smaller by filling the gaps with the carbon oxide mentioned above? I'm a noob when it comes to rice chemistry lol.
| Cirio said: Hmm, maybe I'm not understanding this right, but what is the benefit from mixing rice with the sand? Is there a special property in rice that causes the toxic molecules to be attracted to it? If so, what is this property. Because if the regular filter paper isn't sufficient enough since it can't trap the smaller toxic molecules, couldn't they simply make the "gaps" in the filter paper smaller by filling the gaps with the carbon oxide mentioned above? I'm a noob when it comes to rice chemistry lol. |
According to what I read, it seems the advantage is in durability, as in, last many more uses.
Galaki said:
According to what I read, it seems the advantage is in durability, as in, last many more uses. |
Ah, that makes sense if they're trying to use this as a full-scale filtering method. Otherwise however, the carbon oxide coated filted paper will naturally be more durable than regular filter paper because it has more attraction between its inner molecules. I really wonder how well this method works and whether or not it's affordable to use in a wider scale. There can be many benefits from this.
lol, when you first look you think Rice Sand? what is this, Mixing Rice with Sand?, but it has nothing to do with rice its called Rice sand because the university is called RICE and thats there sand lol.
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| mchaza said: lol, when you first look you think Rice Sand? what is this, Mixing Rice with Sand?, but it has nothing to do with rice its called Rice sand because the university is called RICE and thats there sand lol. |
Oh wow, really? I feel so stupid now haha. But in hindsight, I guess my questions earlier make sense now because I didn't understand how rice would make better filter paper than simply mixing copper oxide with the filter paper. If that's true, then this "discovery" isn't really all too impressive. I'm sure many people have already thought of this/attempted this. They probably just didn't publish their results.
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