A friend of mine worked at a research project 15 years ago, trying to determine how strongly several different causes could effect the amount of microplastics in drinking water.
He couldn’t publish it because they weren’t able to source any water without microplastic contamination for the control samples.
I haven’t done any real labwork in about a decade, so probably a dumb question, but wouldn’t repeat distillation be a viable option for a control like that? Or are you suggesting the gloves might’ve been the culprit?
I know you’ll always get some nanoplastics carried over through aerosol droplets able to survive, but I’d naively expect you could still get a few orders of magnitude cleaner than the ordinary DI tap.
A friend of mine worked at a research project 15 years ago, trying to determine how strongly several different causes could effect the amount of microplastics in drinking water.
He couldn’t publish it because they weren’t able to source any water without microplastic contamination for the control samples.
I haven’t done any real labwork in about a decade, so probably a dumb question, but wouldn’t repeat distillation be a viable option for a control like that? Or are you suggesting the gloves might’ve been the culprit?
I know you’ll always get some nanoplastics carried over through aerosol droplets able to survive, but I’d naively expect you could still get a few orders of magnitude cleaner than the ordinary DI tap.