Removal of Heavy Metals from our Drinking Water

[amigo]

no no no no no......

Iron is carcinogenic. Cancer cells are fed on iron.

So, basically what you are saying is that we should just kill ourselves, others and anyone who's born right away, because Iron is carcinogenic?

After all our BLOOD has IRON in its core...

[blueplanet]

So, basically what you are saying is that we should just kill ourselves, others and anyone who's born right away, because Iron is carcinogenic?

After all our BLOOD has IRON in its core...

I don't undertand what you were talking about. The role of iron in cancer is pretty well known:

http://www.ironoverload.org/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19018762?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_MultiItemSupl.Pubmed_TitleSearch&linkpos=1&&log$=pmtitlesearch4

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8664805

Perhaps, some pseudo anti-government people from your government are telling you iron is an essential nutrient, but they never mention the toxicity of iron.

I have done some google search. Apparently, you are the only one who proposes the use of iron oxide as a adsorbent for water filtering. If this is a good idea for you, then go ahead. This is your choice anyway. I don't want to appear that I am taking away your freedom.

(EDIT: it seems that this discussion becomes increasingly poltitical.)

[amigo]

All I've said was that Fe3O4 could be used to remove As from water, and that idea did not come from me, as I read it elsewhere.

But saying that Iron is a carcinogenic, generally to me, is silly because our blood chemistry is based on Iron, and that was my second remark.

Of course it depends how and where Iron is bonded, just like anything else. For example, Fluorides are detrimental to human body, ie. Sodium Fluoride as by-product of Aluminium industry. Yet Calcium Fluoride is found naturally in many spring waters and does not pose a significant threat due to its insolubility.

Either way, please just read what I write and not between the lines, as there's nothing in-between them.