Could fractal distillation be used as a way to recycle all matter?
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No.\n\nNot everything in your trash will become a gas. For example, organics will become charcoal, the plastics will decompose into a tar like substance, and unless you are on the surface of the sun you won't be able to boil the steel. In the end you will be left with a glob of toxic waste in the bottom of your distillation tower. Definitely not good.\n\nThat said, recycling is an excellent thing. You just have to devise a different strategy for each type of material. That's why every recycling program begins by properly sorting your trash.
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What he said, plus vacuum distillation reduces the boiling points of substances. This is frequently used to prevent denaturization of more fragile compounds.
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i don't really know about this but i'm fairly sure i can give a better answer than lrisjqoijgjr  \n\nyou could probably use a surfactant to break down the molecular attraction between the water molecules but this would leave pollution through the path of whatever you were using to travel through the water\n\nbut yeah not really practical but better than uingnpds
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Probably carbon latice structures, like buckeyballs or nanotubes.  These could then contain the smaller compounds that are doing the desired work.
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Methane can be removed by low temperature gas distillation.  The cost may not be worth it.
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You may consider Recycling.\n\nWe are in the export business of Recyclable Waste PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) Bottle Flakes. These bottle flakes are used to produce PSF and PSY for the production of yarns and cloths, by mixing recycled flakes with virgin pet-chips, thereby reducing cost of production as well as cleaner environment.\n\nWaste management is the collection, transport, processing (waste treatment), recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials' effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them.\n\nWaste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous with different methods and fields of expertise for each.\n\nWaste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential, industrial, and commercial producers. Waste management for non-hazardous residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.\n\nWaste management concepts: Waste management has a number of different concepts, which vary in their usage between countries or regions.\n\nThe waste hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The waste hierarchy classifies waste management strategies according to their desirability. The waste hierarchy has taken many forms over the past decade, but the basic concept has remained the cornerstone of most waste minimisation strategies. The aim of the waste hierarchy is to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to generate the minimum amount of waste.\n\nSome waste management experts have recently incorporated a 'fourth R': "Re-think", with the implied meaning that the present system may have fundamental flaws, and that a thoroughly effective system of waste management may need an entirely new way of looking at waste. Some "re-think" solutions may be counter-intuitive, such as cutting fabric patterns with slightly more "waste material" left -- the now larger scraps are then used for cutting small parts of the pattern, resulting in a decrease in net waste. This type of solution is by no means limited to the clothing industry. Source reduction involves efforts to reduce hazardous waste and other materials by modifying industrial production. Source reduction methods involve changes in manufacturing technology, raw material inputs, and product formulation. At times, the term "pollution prevention" may refer to source reduction.\n\nAnother method of source reduction is to increase incentives for recycling. Many communities in the United States are implementing variable rate pricing for waste disposal (also known as Pay As You Throw - PAYT) which has been effective in reducing the size of the municipal waste stream.\n\nSource reduction is typically measured by efficiencies and cutbacks in waste. Toxics use reduction is a more controversial approach to source reduction that targets and measures reductions in the upstream use of toxic materials. Toxics use reduction emphasizes the more preventive aspects of source reduction but, due to its emphasis on toxic chemical inputs, has been opposed more vigorously by chemical manufacturers. Toxics use reduction programs have been set up by legislation in some states, e.g., Massachusetts, New Jersey and Oregon.\n\nResource recovery: A relatively recent idea in waste management has been to treat the waste material as a resource to be exploited, instead of simply a challenge to be managed and disposed of. There are a number of different methods by which resources may be extracted from waste: the materials may be extracted and recycled, or the calorific content of the waste may be
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I've used it as a process in which a compound is dissolved in their recrystalization solvent (found in the Merck index) then filtered. The new filtered solution is allowed to cool and the compounds recrystallize creating more pure crystals. \nLook up types of organic purifications.
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Segregating plastic, metal(cans) , and other garbege from each other and processing it separately.
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Beauty + Science = Soup??? I'm not quite sure how you came to that but heehee, yeah I like soup. Expecially homemade turkey soup.. mmmm...\n\nOh your question.. umm. How about introducing Fractals? They're very scientific, present in nature everywhere and they're very pretty too.\n\nYou could print out some examples from here http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractals/WHY/\nand bring in some real life examples of fractals in nature, like a fern branch.\n\nI'm sure you'd get a high mark for this.
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The difference in solubility of the components allows for separation.  I don't remember the specifics, but that is the reason.  Water will not have a big enough difference.
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Thats more like it.....(lol i am only joking)\n\nwell you would do that by fractional distillation of liquidified air.\n\nnaturally.....microbes in soil remove nitrogen from air (nitrogen fixation.\n\nIndustrially:.....harber process is used to mimic the naturally occuring nitrogen fixation process....but high temperatures and pressures are required....typically the starting material for harber process is ammonia.....\n\ni hope that helps...(atleast a little?)
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This is the "if things are always meant to go to greater entropy, how can random molecumels reverse entropy and become organized" argument, right?  Ok-If you really thought that nothing could go from a state of disorganization to a state of organization, THEN you would have a good reason not to clean your room, stack the dishes neatly, build a house from a pile of bricks, etc etc.  Obviously, things can go from a state of disorganization to a state of organization-it happens constantly, all the time.  First, the law is involved in closed systems, where there is a set amount of energy-Clearly, Earth gets a whole whopping amount of energy every day, or everything WOULD fall apart.  But even in a local sense, life and evolution DO increase entropy, just like building a house from a pile of bricks does.  The equation is one of energy usage as well as organization.  The energy that turns into waste heat (maximum entropy) in the process of building a house, or building an animal, is greater than the organization that results from that energy.  So, you have to generate a lot of waste heat to get a little organization, and even in this small system you have increased entropy-Surely you can feel it that the energy to do the dishes is *way* more than the resultant organized dishes...  Evolution has used up an enormous amount of energy, and increased entropy-and the only way it can work is that it gets a constant large infusion of new energy all the time, from the sun (or geothermal processes in the case of deep sea extremophiles)- In a very real sense, life is ac extremely wasteful proposition, like the worst chronic shoppaholic-but its ok for the shopaholic, if they are given a billion dollars a day to do it.
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Wow.  What a fine idea.  If you don't find any you might want to check into how it could be done.  Try googling "absorption refrigeration".  \nFound one.  See ref. below.
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By fractional distillation.\nDEG distills at 93 'C, you can collect first and then collect water at 100 'C.
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Yes, it is absolutely possible, I do it all the time.\n\nThis site is a great resource (look around in it),\nhttp://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/5361/chlorate/chlorate.html\nor more specific to your question,\nhttp://www.frogfot.com/synthesis/chlorateel.html
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In terms of renewable energy this is possible. The technology can be termed "geothermal" but what you need to look into are heat pumps. This operates somewhat like a refrigerator or freezer. Heat energy can be removed from an object via exchange devices and converted.
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In my county in Maryland, we have recycling of glass, plastic, and mixed paper with weekly pickup at our houses. There seems to be widespread participation and it's much more convenient than lugging your bottles back to the store.