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Simple process turns water into disinfectant


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Hydrogen peroxide, water's short-tempered sibling, has helped humans to fight infection since we discovered its antiseptic properties nearly two centuries ago. Unfortunately, it's pretty unstable, making it tricky to transport where needed.

Now, researchers have found a rather simple way to generate the chemical out of water, air, and electricity, and it could be just what remote communities need.

The process, developed by chemical engineers at MIT, could one day be used to create portable devices that use non-toxic catalysts to electrochemically transform a water supply into an environmentally friendly germ killer.

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-simple-process-could-turn-water-into-an-environmentally-friendly-disinfectant-anywhere

https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-process-could-make-hydrogen-peroxide-available-remote-places-1023

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