{"id":124879,"date":"2018-01-24T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=124879"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T07:40:39","slug":"paper-test-water-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/paper-test-water-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper test for water safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists have developed a simple, paper-based device that can be used to test if a water sample is contaminated, providing a low-cost way for developing countries to limit the spread of water-borne diseases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inspired by the simplicity of litmus paper &#8211; commonly used for the rapid assessment of acidity in water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The device consists of a microbial fuel cell (MFC), obtained by screen printing biodegradable carbon electrodes onto a single piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124880\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/C-26f9CXoAIUxr7.jpg\" alt=\"Paper test for water safety\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/C-26f9CXoAIUxr7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/C-26f9CXoAIUxr7-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An MFC is a device that uses the natural biological processes of &#8216;electric&#8217; bacteria \u2013 attached to the carbon electrodes \u2013 to generate an electric signal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When these bacteria are exposed to polluted water, a change in the electric signal occurs, which can be used as a warning message that the water is unsafe to drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a simple, paper-based device that can be used to test if a water sample is contaminated, providing a low-cost way for developing countries to limit the spread of water-borne diseases. Inspired by the simplicity of litmus paper &#8211; commonly used for the rapid assessment of acidity in water. The device consists of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44020,64055,64054,64052,64050,4169,64051,64053],"class_list":["post-124879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-developed","tag-mfc","tag-microbial-fuel-cell","tag-paper-based-device","tag-paper-test-for-water-safety","tag-scientists","tag-simple","tag-water-sample"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/maxresdefault-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}