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Japanese Inventors Develop Ion Exchanger

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Hiroshi Inoue, Koji Yamanaka, Makio Tamura, Shusaku Yoshida and Hideo Nakamura, all from Tokyo, have developed an ion exchanger for electrodeionization water purification device According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a porous ion exchanger having many macropores therein, comprising the steps of: mixing an oil-soluble monomer, a precipitant which is a poor solvent with respect to a polymer obtained by polymerizing the oil-soluble monomer and which dissolves the oil-soluble monomer, a surface-active agent, and water to form a water-in-oil type emulsion in which water droplets are ...

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