| How does reverse osmosis work? Just look at normal | | | | Desalination plants on submarines make fresh water |
| osmosis. | | | | this way. City water boards use reverse osmosis |
| Chemists explain it as the process that occurs when a | | | | plants. And you can buy them small enough to fit in a |
| fluid is drawn through a barrier by another, more | | | | home so that, through the whole house, reverse |
| concentrated, fluid on the other side. | | | | osmosis water is available. |
| Some barriers are like that; they are honeycombed | | | | This water is clean, but not pure. Because reverse |
| with microscopic pores, and solutions can pass through | | | | osmosis stops dirt, some chemicals and also natural, |
| these little passageways. Osmosis works when one | | | | healthy essential minerals from passing through the |
| of these kinds of barriers is separating two differently | | | | barrier. It delivers sterile water. |
| concentrated fluids. | | | | But you and your children desperately need those |
| It goes on around you every day. | | | | minerals which reverse osmosis leaves behind. |
| For example, flowers and all plants draw up water by | | | | Normally you get them from quality drinking water, |
| osmosis. Osmosis keeps out bodies working as | | | | because the magnesium, sulfates, calcium, iron and all |
| chemical reactions and fluid movements in our cells | | | | those life-giving minerals which are dissolved out of |
| take place because of it. When you open a can of fish | | | | rocks deep beneath the surface of the earth are |
| kept in salt water, it is fresh because osmosis has | | | | moved up in a natural cycle into our water reservoirs. |
| forced the salt in the brine to move into the fish meat | | | | So if you need to purify water for your whole house |
| and that stopped bacteria spoiling your fish. | | | | reverse osmosis is not the system you need. There |
| Interestingly, osmosis can be reversed. And this is our | | | | are excellent alternative systems that will clean water |
| question, how does reverse osmosis work? | | | | and leave nature's minerals for you and your children |
| It's reversed with pressure. | | | | to drink and enjoy. |
| Take a container of sea water with a semi permeable | | | | This is your answer to 'how does reverse osmosis |
| membrane for a bottom. Now apply pressure 60 times | | | | work'. And now you know, may I suggest you click to |
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| will start to pass through the membrane barrier, but the | | | | information about filter options that are better for your |
| salt will be left behind. Reasonably fresh water will flow | | | | children than reverse osmosis. |
| out the other side. | | | | |