Waterblogged

Introductory articles about desalination invariably point out that simple schemes for desalting seawater have been practiced since very ancient times—sometimes to get at the salt rather than water. For example, Waterblogged.info’s crack researchers have lost count of the number of times they’ve read that Aristotle wrote about a basic distillation process for separating salt and [...]

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