{"id":8579,"date":"2011-05-02T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2011-05-02T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:00:59","slug":"its-ungodly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8579","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Ungodly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1750612\/the-dangerously-clean-water-used-to-make-your-iphone\">The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ordinary person thinks of reverse-osmosis as taking \u201ceverything\u201d out of water. RO is the process you use to turn ocean water into crystalline drinking water. And in human terms, RO does take most everything out of the water.<br \/>\nBut for semiconductors, RO water isn\u2019t even close. Ultra-pure water requires 12 filtration steps beyond RO. (For those of a technical bent, the final filter in making UPW has pores that are 20 nanometers wide.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nWater is a good cleaner because it is a good solvent&#8211;the so-called \u201cuniversal solvent,\u201d excellent at dissolving all kinds of things. UPW is particularly \u201chungry,\u201d in solvent terms, because it starts so clean. That\u2019s why it is so valuable for washing semiconductors.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s also why it\u2019s not safe to drink. A single glass of UPW wouldn\u2019t hurt you. But even that one glass of water would instantly start leeching valuable minerals back out of your body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dangerously Clean Water Used To Make Your iPhone The ordinary person thinks of reverse-osmosis as taking \u201ceverything\u201d out of water. RO is the process you use to turn ocean water into crystalline drinking water. And in human terms, RO &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-other-science","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}