Some enthusiasts have even learned to purify their own cocaine, using acetone and coffee filters.
The miners have been sent rubber boots as well as chlorine to purify water from underground sources, Manalich said.
In Bekaa Valley, Mercy Corps has distributed hygiene kits, tablets to purify water, buckets and jerry cans to refugees.
The website HowStuffWorks has a fascinating article about RISUG that covers its genesis as a method to purify drinking water.
Their discovery was a painstaking process: She had to purify samples down to a single microorganism, a step that took eight months.
One of the most notable innovations: the development of a new catalyst material to purify exhaust from diesel or other lean-burning engines.
Several previous attempts to purify bone marrow for sickle-cell transplants have failed.
Even today, wrestlers scatter a handful of salt to purify the ring and clap their hands to call the gods before every match.
From that massive payload of jellyfish, it would be possible to purify perhaps a few hundred milligrams of the glowing proteins for study.
To the long list of great ideas gone bad, add the UV Waterworks--a simple, cheap device to purify filthy drinking water in poor countries.
Cost, it adds, has been the biggest obstacle to development, noting that it is much more expensive to purify seawater than it is to treat fresh water.
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But its samples were collected in July, in the low season for tourism and at the start of the monsoon when rain would help to purify the water.
Representative DIANE WATSON (Democrat, California): What they're doing is trying to purify the race when they agreed through the Department of Interior that they would include in their Nation all their former slaves.
His job is to identify the bad spirits that are attaching themselves to the juus (soul) of a person, and by placing himself in a trance he is able to purify the afflicted soul.
Sharia is anti-freedom and anti-equality, so to purify oneself in an Islamic sense would necessarily mean something very different from what we in the West would think of as struggling to become a better person.
You have to purify the process.
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Developing a complicated procedure to purify stem cells for human trials was difficult at Scripps, because academic settings and government grants support basic research, not the applied-process development required for such targeted research, and Friedlander didn't want to go the typical venture-capital route.
That made it easier to purify the rainwater that in Singapore is fastidiously collected wherever it can be in streets and ponds, even on tall buildings and bridges before being taken by drains to reservoirs, and thence to treatment plants where it is cleaned to drinking-water standards.
China said the raids were carried out in an effort to "purify the network environment".
These groups will spend the next five years developing better and cheaper methods to produce, purify and crystallise proteins.
While the walls of the Inspiration Mars spacecraft will initially be lined with water-filled bags to guard against cosmic rays, their contents will be gradually replaced with er, byproduct that will be dehydrated through the bag (possibly using polyethylene) to reclaim and purify water for drinking.
It combines a dehumidifier with a water purifier, to essentially suck the moisture from the air and, instead of discarding it as one normally would, purify it to make it potable.
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The genes secrete recombinant protein, which the researchers purify and pass off to two partners in Brazil FIOCRUZ and Instituto Butantan which manufacture the vaccines.
Mayan priests say they will purify the sacred archaeological site to rid it of any "bad spirits" after Bush is there.
And when they do need to use "bitter money, " the Luo purify the cash in a formal ritual.
Iraq cannot pump as much oil as the agreement allows it to sell, and though it now has a bit more food, it cannot purify its water.
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