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Can a brita pitcher filter all the crap out of it and make it drinkable?, Also will a coffee filter work?, thanks

that's not what a Brita is intended for. I wouldn't suggest drinking rain water....have you ever heard of acid rain?

2009-01-18 14:28:01 by hunta777

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Nope. Brita uses a negatively charged filtration system, and the negatively charged Fluoride is not attracted to it.

http://www.brita.com.au/help/frequently_ asked_questions

2008-11-16 18:18:24 by kiro105

What is in the filter to make the water clean is what I'm trying to say. Can you give me a wed site or where it say that on the Brita site. I looked very where but i cant find it.

It is on the Brita website, under Support: FAQ at: http://www.brita.com/us/support/faq/pitc her-faq/

Here is what it says as to what is inside the filter cartridge:

What ingredients are found in a Brita® Pitcher Filter?
The Brita® Pitcher Filter contains activated carbon and an ion-exchange resin. All of the ingredients in the filter have been approved by the Water Quality Association. As you may know, activated carbon is widely used in the food and medical industry. Its function in Brita® Filters is to reduce the chlorine (taste and odor)1. The activated carbon utilized is made from coconut shells that have been subjected to a special heating process that produces a large surface area capable of maximum absorption. The ion-exchange resin acts like a magnet and reduces mercury, copper, cadmium and zinc1.

2009-09-14 13:27:06 by lilly

And since your answering that, how do those filters work?

Activated charcoal.

Works as follows:
Charcoal is carbon. Activated charcoal is charcoal that has been treated with oxygen to open up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms. According to Encyclopedia Britannica:

The use of special manufacturing techniques results in highly porous charcoals that have surface areas of 300-2,000 square metres per gram. These so-called active, or activated, charcoals are widely used to adsorb odorous or coloured substances from gases or liquids.

The word adsorb is important here. When a material adsorbs something, it attaches to it by chemical attraction. The huge surface area of activated charcoal gives it countless bonding sites. When certain chemicals pass next to the carbon surface, they attach to the surface and are trapped.

Activated charcoal is good at trapping other carbon-based impurities ("organic" chemicals), as well as things like chlorine. Many other chemicals are not attracted to carbon at all -- sodium, nitrates, etc. -- so they pass right through. This means that an activated charcoal filter will remove certain impurities while ignoring others. It also means that, once all of the bonding sites are filled, an activated charcoal filter stops working. At that point you must replace the filter.

Cheers

2006-04-17 20:04:26 by Styr_kitty

Almost every day I have to scrub a green ring out of the bottom of my Brita filter water pitcher. It's like it's algae or something, but it grosses me out. How can I stop it?

It's one of the drawbacks of the Brita; I get it, too.

You should wash it with hot water and soap, not just remove the ring from the bottom. Also scrub the plastic insert.

2007-03-08 22:52:36 by luisa_mapacha