Researchers Have Created New Powerful Molecule For Extraction Of Salt

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Indiana University researchers have created a powerful new molecule for the extraction of salt from liquid. The work has the potential to help increase the amount of drinkable water on Earth.

Built using chemical bonds previously regarded as too weak, the new molecule is about 10 billion times improved compared to a similar structure created over a decade ago at IU. The molecule's design is reported today in the journal Science.

"If you were to place one-millionth of a gram of this molecule in a metric ton of water, 100 percent of them will still be able to capture a salt," said Yun Liu, who led the study as a Ph.D. student in the lab of Amar Flood, the James F. Jackson Professor of Chemistry and Luther Dana Waterman Professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Chemistry.

The molecule is designed to capture chloride, which is formed when the element chlorine pairs with another element to gain an electron. The most familiar chloride salt is sodium chloride, or common table salt. Other chloride salts are potassium chloride, calcium chloride and ammonium chloride.

This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy. A patent application on the work has been filed by IU's Innovation and Commercialization Office.

 

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https://news.iu.edu/stories/2019/05/iub/releases/23-chemistry-chloride-salt-capture-molecule.html

 

That is promising future tbh

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7 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

researchers have created a powerful new molecule for the extraction of salt

Maybe this will finally fix Azealia Banks attitude..

[Mikolaj 11,640]

Like we need more of that, have they seen stan twitter