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                    [Title] => Tree bark can clean polluted water — study
                    [Summary] => Don’t look now, but tree barks, which are considered wastes, can be used to clean water polluted with toxic metals, especially lead.


Chemist Jennifer P. Tamayo of the Los Baños-based DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) found this after studying the potentials of the barks of eight tree species to trap ions (atomic particles) of lead and chromium present in the wastewater of a steel galvanizing plant. (Lead causes kidney and liver cancer while chromium causes biological mutations.)
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According to chemist Jennifer Tamayo, of the DOST’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) in Los Baños, Laguna, she found out that tree barks could trap ions of lead and chromium present in the wastewater of steel galvanizing plants.

Lead and chromium pose health hazards because they cause biological mutation and kidney and liver cancer, respectively.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Tree bark can clean polluted water — study
                    [Summary] => Don’t look now, but tree barks, which are considered wastes, can be used to clean water polluted with toxic metals, especially lead.


Chemist Jennifer P. Tamayo of the Los Baños-based DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) found this after studying the potentials of the barks of eight tree species to trap ions (atomic particles) of lead and chromium present in the wastewater of a steel galvanizing plant. (Lead causes kidney and liver cancer while chromium causes biological mutations.)
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According to chemist Jennifer Tamayo, of the DOST’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) in Los Baños, Laguna, she found out that tree barks could trap ions of lead and chromium present in the wastewater of steel galvanizing plants.

Lead and chromium pose health hazards because they cause biological mutation and kidney and liver cancer, respectively.
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