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Sawdust scrounger

indian scientists have developed a simple and cheap technique to remove crystal violet (cv), a toxic dye used in lab experiments, from waste water. The researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur used hardwood sawdust to trap (adsorb) the cv molecules. "We found 1 gramme (g) of sawdust removes 341 milligramme (mg) of cv at 25