Hell0000,
I'm hoping there's one or two chemistry boffins out there who can help explain a thing or two to me please..
When it comes to filter systems they all describe their filter as giving the purest water available... which is true when you compare it to the bacteria ridden water you could be drinking from the stream...
But what im intrigued to know is how these microns work..
I.e If pollen is 100 Microns, spores are 10 microns, bacteria is 1.0 micron and virus's are 0.01 Micron
How can a filter take out "virus's and bacteria" if their filters are sized as the following
- "0.1 absolute micron biological filtration" (sawyer Squeeze)
or
the 2 micron bacteriostatic pores of the Aqua-pure traveller ...
I've used the aquapure traveller recently and although I should have done my research prior to the trip about this I didn't.. by like stated earlier I am intrigued. So I ended up using iodine aswel as a 'just in case'..
So if anyone can help explain these process's how 0.1 micron & 2micron filters can remove virus's from water that are supposedly 0.02microns... it baffles me so a simple answer other than 'magic' would be extremely helpful PLEASSSEEEE
Cheers
Leaf177
I'm hoping there's one or two chemistry boffins out there who can help explain a thing or two to me please..
When it comes to filter systems they all describe their filter as giving the purest water available... which is true when you compare it to the bacteria ridden water you could be drinking from the stream...
But what im intrigued to know is how these microns work..
I.e If pollen is 100 Microns, spores are 10 microns, bacteria is 1.0 micron and virus's are 0.01 Micron
How can a filter take out "virus's and bacteria" if their filters are sized as the following
- "0.1 absolute micron biological filtration" (sawyer Squeeze)
or
the 2 micron bacteriostatic pores of the Aqua-pure traveller ...
I've used the aquapure traveller recently and although I should have done my research prior to the trip about this I didn't.. by like stated earlier I am intrigued. So I ended up using iodine aswel as a 'just in case'..
So if anyone can help explain these process's how 0.1 micron & 2micron filters can remove virus's from water that are supposedly 0.02microns... it baffles me so a simple answer other than 'magic' would be extremely helpful PLEASSSEEEE
Cheers
Leaf177