TLDR: Calcium binds to the microplastics making them easier to filter. You have to boil > cool > filter. Works better with hard water.
TLDR: Calcium binds to the microplastics making them easier to filter. You have to boil > cool > filter. Works better with hard water.
Except you’re ignoring the part where we’ve captured microplastics in our atmosphere at various levels including upper.
Microplastics can be carried by water vapor alone.
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/7/863 https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/microplastics-impact-cloud-formation-likely-affecting-weather-and-climate https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723008094
Plenty of more sources that definitively state that nanoe and microplastics ride on water vapor and can be captured in atmosphere.
The articles don’t say that atmospheric microplastics are coming from boiling water or that it is a hypothetical means they are getting there. Again, that’s not how steam works. You are essentially talking about a distillation process. Solid particulate is not transported by distillation.
The major source of microplastics in our environment comes from tires and brake pads. They are emitted directly into the air. The amount of microplastics that hypothetically could possibly be emitted from your personal drinking water or that of all humans is not significant next to automobile sources, even if it were possible.
That is not at all what my point is.
You’re asserting that a body of water that has microplastics wouldn’t emit them via steam from boiling water, and I just provided you with sources saying that microplastics are present in the water vapor of our atmosphere…meaning they are light enough to be carried in water vapor…steam is water vapor.
You’re then trying to assert that microplastics are lighter than air, which they are not. Nano plastics who even knows, but your secondary follow-up makes no sense because the former is true from the links I provided.