Hackaday reader [Kyle] wrote in to share a project he recently wrapped up, involving a counter top water distillation unit he uses at home. He lives in Atlanta, and hates both the taste and ...

Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal‐driven separation process that offers a sustainable alternative for desalination and water treatment. By utilising hydrophobic, microporous membranes ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Fractional distillation works because the different liquids have different boiling points. When the mixture is heated: vapours rise through a column which is ...

If the Russians are to be believed, vodka is definitively Russian. After all, movies, advertisements, and even news articles all point to vodka as a distinctly Russian product. However, the truth ...

Hackaday reader [Kyle] wrote in to share a project he recently wrapped up, involving a counter top water distillation unit he uses at home. He lives in Atlanta, and hates both the taste and ...

New tech from MIT aims to clean the water used in fracking so much that you’d happily drink it, even though it was once filled with chemicals. With natural gas on the rise, that may be the only option ...

Miscible liquids are ones that can mix together – like water and ethanol. Immiscible liquids are ones that can’t – like oil and water. Fractional distillation close fractional distillationIn ...