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Can Vinegar Clean Up Coal’s Act?

25 March 2009 No Comment

Can Vinegar Clean Up Coal’s Act?

Could a vinegar bath clean up coal mining pollution?Vinegar can clean windows, kill weeds, and even cure the common cold.  Now a team of scientists at the University of Leeds is studying how vinegar could clean up sites contaminated by chromium compounds discharged from old textile factories, smelters, and tanneries.  As a source of chromium contamination, coal mining could also benefit from a dose of vinegar - or would that really make a difference?

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Source: Green Options

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