{"id":4541,"date":"2011-12-14T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T19:59:01","slug":"tiny-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/tiny-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OSU researcher hopes ultrasound can destroy pharmaceuticals, compounds we flush into rivers and lakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every time we flush the toilet, some of the compounds and medicines we take every day end up in our streams, rivers and lakes.<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cemerging contaminants\u201d include antibiotics, birth-control drugs, antidepressants and caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists better understand the threat these pollutants pose to wildlife and people, Ohio State University researchers are developing a method to destroy them before they cause harm.<\/p>\n<p>A process that fires high-frequency sound waves through water holds great promise, said Linda Weavers, an OSU environmental engineer.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is based on a similar technique she helped develop that uses ultrasound to clean mercury from lake and stream bottoms. \u201cIt works reasonably fast,\u201d Weavers said. \u201cYou flip a switch, it works, and you don\u2019t have to use a lot of chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For years, environmental studies have detected a host of drugs, chemicals and compounds in waterways across the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/science\/2011\/12\/11\/tiny-bubbles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete article at The Columbus Dispatch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU researcher hopes ultrasound can destroy pharmaceuticals, compounds we flush into rivers and lakes Every time we flush the toilet, some of the compounds and medicines we take every day end up in our streams, rivers and lakes. These \u201cemerging contaminants\u201d include antibiotics, birth-control drugs, antidepressants and caffeine. As scientists better understand the threat these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/tiny-bubbles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tiny bubbles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}