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Herbal Defluoridation of Drinking Water
Researchers in India have developed a filter system based on a medicinal herb, which they say can quickly and easily remove “fluoride” from drinking water. The technology described in the March issue of the International Journal of Environmental Engineering uses parts of the plant Tridax procumbens as a biocarbon filter for the ion. Drinking water […]
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Burger King Confirms Its Restaurants Do Not Use ‘Fluoridated Salt’
WireNews+Co has recently begun a programme aimed at exposing which manufacturers/producers add ‘fluoride‘, including the toxic chemicals disodium hexafluorosilicate (Na2SiF6) and or hexafluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) to their products under the guise of reducing tooth decay. According to the Customer Relations department for Burger King Worldwide, the company does not use fluoridated salt at its restaurants. “We […]
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Chemical biology: DNA’s new alphabet
When Steven Benner set out to re-engineer genetic molecules, he didn’t think much of DNA. “The first thing you realize is that it is a stupid design,” says Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida. Take DNA’s backbone, which contains repeating, negatively charged phosphate groups. Because negative charges […]
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Synthetic pot: banned but found in Boston
FOX UNDERCOVER – Banned by the DEA and dubbed a dangerous substitute for the real thing, synthetic marijuana was easily found on Boston store shelves by a FOX Undercover hidden camera investigation. Inside an Allston head shop, the clerk retrieved a packet under the counter for a FOX Undercover photographer and intern. Twenty dollars later, […]
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Train Derailment: Crews Now Working on Hydrogen Fluoride Cars
Crews successfully finished moving early Wednesday the chemical butadiene from the train derailment site in southwestern Jefferson County. The butadiene has been delivered to a rail yard, according to MetroSafe. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, crews began working to work on car containing another dangerous chemical, hydrogen fluoride, MetroSafe said. MetroSafe said the “trans-loading” — moving […]
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Train derailment: Workers begin unloading thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals from derailed tank cars in southwestern Louisville
With Dixie Highway closed again in southwestern Jefferson County and 31 nearby homes evacuated, the unloading of tens of thousands of gallons of dangerous chemicals from derailed rail cars began Tuesday and is expected to continue for at least three days. The evacuation and the closure of Dixie Highway from Ky. 44 to the Salt […]
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Laser fluorescence helps quantify fluorosis
Quantitative laser fluorescence (QLF) — which noninvasively measures the loss of fluorescence intensity in areas of enamel hypomineralization — could be a useful tool in epidemiological studies designed to quantify fluorosis and distinguish between fluoridated and nonfluoridated populations, according to a new study in BMC Oral Health (November 1, 2012). The last several decades have […]
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Train Derailment: Crews May Address Hydrogen Fluoride Cars Saturday
Update 9:45 p.m. Crews may attempt to stabilize and level two cars containing the dangerous gas hydrogen fluoride on Saturday afternoon — work that would require another shelter-in-place warning for a five-mile radius of the train derailment site near Dixie Highway and Katherine Station Road, said Doug Hamilton, executive director of Louisville-Jefferson County EMA/MetroSafe. On […]
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Ky. Evacuation Indefinite as Chemical Tanker Burns
Hundreds of people will remain forced from their homes indefinitely as a massive effort continued Friday to move derailed train cars filled with hazardous materials away from a car holding chemicals that continued to burn for a third day, officials said. “If we let them in prematurely, and God forbid had a catastrophic event … […]
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Natural fluorine provokes reaction
“Cuddle a chemist and see the reaction.” That’s a little chemistry joke that has been around for longer than I have. For chemistry is all about chemical reactions. We mix two or more substances together (we call these reactants), and they react to give new substances called products. Reactants and products are often distinctly different […]
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