A group of researchers has found a way to utilize mainstream technology to analyze a public health concern. They are using a Smartphone camera with a special attachment and some pretty neat chemistry concepts to detect Hg2+ in water samples. It is portable and relatively inexpensive compared to spectroscopic methods from what the article says. …
Here’s a short update on the arsenic problem in Bangladesh, and how the SONO filter alleviates the problem (click the title above to view the 2:51 minute video). With over 300,000 SONO filters already in place, that leaves some 75 million people in Bangladesh still in need of its benefits. Of course, there are many …
© Brady Haran 2008
E-waste Recycling: What is ‘arsenic’?
The way I see it our arsenic project has unravelled into several strands. First, we still have the original idea of using water hyacinth to remove arsenic from water. There are several difficulties there. How much dried water hyacinth will absorb how much arsenic? Scientifically what are the isotherms that describe the sorptive behavior? What …
Another interesting piece, “Potentially hazardous arsenic-containing compounds are characterized”, by Carrie Arnold, in Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News – Arsenolipids In Fish Oil, August 11, 2008, Volume 86, Number 32, p. 10. It seems the fish we’ve been encouraged to eat may contain arsenic. We usually just worry about drinking water, whether here in …
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The Superbug That Cures Arsenic Poisoning Check this article out, for it bears on what we are doing. There’s exciting new stuff happening all the time. Also, the source web site MedIndia.net is packed with valuable information. There’s an RSS feed for research news.
Charlie Rose Science Series: Global Health – Charlie Rose A fascinating discussion on global health issues by experts. I didn’t hear arsenic mentioned.
Urban Development and Environmental Research Center (UDERC) Pakistan
arsenic-source : Discussion group on the source/mobilisation of arsenic in groundwater, in W. Bengal India / Bangladesh & elsewhere