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Whether the LifeStraw filter heavy metals like arsenic, iron and fluoride or not has to be found. “No, the present version does not filter any of the heavy metals”. The sayings of the informed chemist about the phrase of this answer have to be found.
Concept Introduction:
Fluoridation: Fluride present during tooth formation provide caries resistance systematic incorporation of fluride into enamel during development.
The upward adjustment of the concentration of fluride ion in a public health water supply such a way that concentration of fluride ion in water may be consistently maintained at one part per million by weight to prevent dental caries with minimum possibility of causing dental fluorosis.
Toxicity of Heavy metals such as mercury, plutonium and lead are toxic that have known vital (or) beneficial effect on organisms and their accumulation over time in the bodies of animal can cause series illness.
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