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| Rufus:
--- Quote from: Richard Crowley on April 21, 2014, 06:09:46 am ---But this wouldn't be the first example of the public being complete idiots. --- End quote --- The public are not generally complete idiots, they are generally ignorant. What is disgusting is the people who are paid not to be ignorant choose to support the public's ignorance rather than correct it. |
| scientist:
--- Quote from: tom66 on April 21, 2014, 10:36:07 am --- --- Quote from: vk6zgo on April 21, 2014, 09:59:45 am ---Also,TV shows don't help,where Jack Bauer,or someone similar stops a terrorist from dropping a tiny vial of poison or bacteria into an huge dam. --- End quote --- Maybe it's a homoeopathic poison? --- End quote --- Or an actual biohazard? Bacteria reproduce incredibly fast, and urine doesn't. I wouldn't be happy drinking water contaminated with anthrax or Ebola. |
| IanB:
--- Quote from: scientist on April 21, 2014, 06:32:17 am --- --- Quote ---Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter? --- End quote --- In most cities, it's fluorinated with a few ug/L; helps convert the hydroxyapatite in tooth enamel into fluoroapatite, which is a bit more durable. Chlorine is usually what they dump in copious amounts into swimming pools. --- End quote --- Drinking water is chlorinated at the point of supply as a standard measure in treated water systems. You can smell the chlorine if you run fresh water from the tap/faucet at high velocity so it froths up. |
| han:
--- Quote from: IanB on April 22, 2014, 03:05:16 am --- --- Quote from: scientist on April 21, 2014, 06:32:17 am --- --- Quote ---Isn't that partly why water in most of the US is slightly chlorinated so that things like this don't matter? --- End quote --- In most cities, it's fluorinated with a few ug/L; helps convert the hydroxyapatite in tooth enamel into fluoroapatite, which is a bit more durable. Chlorine is usually what they dump in copious amounts into swimming pools. --- End quote --- Drinking water is chlorinated at the point of supply as a standard measure in treated water systems. You can smell the chlorine if you run fresh water from the tap/faucet at high velocity so it froths up. --- End quote --- why they didn't use O3? (ozone) |
| scientist:
Oddly enough, that isn't so where I live. They only chlorinate the water if it's from a well, and mine isn't. |
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