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?

Read more of this story »

Visit the original post at: Energy News