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emurphy commented on the blog post BPA Testing in the Plant Material 1 year, 2 months ago · View
So the status of the project is that I am still waiting for the samples grown in the window farm setting from my correspondents in New York. I have been testing Nestle water bottles. So far even under extreme heating and extraction with DCM/Hexane solvent mixtures I am not getting any traces of BPA. There [...]
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emurphy commented on the blog post BPA Testing in the Plant Material 1 year, 7 months ago · View
So far the experiment will consist of testing the edible material of the leaves, some soil and we going to do a quick hexane wash of regular poland springs bottles to see what is leeching out of the plastic. We will be using control plants that haven’t touched plastic and then plants grown in the [...]
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emurphy wrote a new blog post: BPA Testing in the Plant Material 1 year, 7 months ago · View
I was asked by Andrew Carter to do some testing of plant material to see if any unwanted molecules worked their way up the root system into the plant. I haven’t received the samples yet, but I’d love to keep people up to date with the testing process and where I am at. I will [...]
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