September 12, 2013

Cilantro, that favorite salsa ingredient, purifies drinking water

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Hints that a favorite ingredient in Mexican, Southeast Asian and other spicy cuisine may be an inexpensive new way of purifying drinking water are on the menu today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.

The meeting, which began Sunday and ends today, included almost 7,000 reports on new discoveries in science and other topics.