IRON NANO-PARTICLES
February 1st, 2004
BY MATTHEW BRACEAUSTRALIAN researchers have developed what they say is a cheaper and safer way of cleaning up contaminated sites, by using tiny iron nano-particles. The particles remove chlorine atoms from polluting compounds, replacing them with hydrogen atoms, thus reducing toxicity and making them easier for natural microbes to break down.Project manager at the Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Management and Pollution Control, (CRC) Dr Andrew Feitz, said: "The new process is about ten times cheaper. It is carried out at room temperature and produces no ...
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