Illinois Researchers Develop a Device to Convert Toxic Arsenite in Water to the Less Toxic Arsenate (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Illinois Researchers Develop a Device to Convert Toxic Arsenite in Water to the Less Toxic Arsenate

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Professor Xiao Su, left, graduate student Stephen Cotty, center, and postdoctoral researcher Kwiyong Kim have developed an energy-efficient device that selectively absorbs a highly toxic form of arsenic in water and converts it into a far less toxic form.

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