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Arsenic traps
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Issue Date: Jun 30, 2001
Supercomputers have been used to design new chemicals with flypaper-like arsenic-trapping properties. The developers of the chemical hope to test the new material, called Specific Anion Nanoengineered Sorbents (SANS), at a planned city water-purification demonstration plant in Albuquerque, as well as in several smaller water systems in rural New Mexico communities. Researchers think the new arsenic-eating SANS could reduce the sticker shock of removing arsenic from drinking water for cities served by water treatment plants.
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