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Chamberland filter

A Chamberland

Chamberland

Chamberland may refer to :* Charles Chamberland , French inventor of the autoclave device,* Dennis Chamberland , American bioengineer, explorer, and author,...
filter, also known as a Pasteur-Chamberland filter, is a porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
water filter invented by Charles Chamberland

Charles Chamberland

Charles Chamberland was a French microbiologist from Chilly-le-Vignoble in the department of Jura who worked with Louis Pasteur. In 1884 he developed a type of filtration known today as the Chamberland filter or Chamberland-Pasteur filter, constituting of an unglazed porcelain bar....
in 1884. It is similar to the Berkefeld filter

Berkefeld filter

A Berkefeld filter is United Kingdom water filter made up of diatomaceous earth used since 1891. It was named after the owner of the mine.It is a good bacterial Filter used in Microbiology laboratories and, home water filter, and also in the field....
in principle.

Design

It consists of an unglazed porcelain tube that contains a ring of enameled porcelain through which the inflow pipe fits. The core of the porcelain is made up of a metal pipe with holes through which water flows out and is collected.

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A Chamberland

Chamberland

Porcelain

Charles Chamberland

Berkefeld filter

Design

Types

There are 13 types in general: L₁ to L₁₃.
L₁ filters have the coarsest pore size while L₁₃ have the finest.

Usefulness

It is as useful as other ceramic

Ceramic

File:Bridge from dental porcelain.jpgFile:Qing vase p1070256.jpgA ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetal solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling....
and porcelain

Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
filters. It is a good bacterial water filter

Filter (water)

A water filter removes impurities from water by means of a fine physical barrier, a chemical process or a biological process. Filters cleanse water to various extents for irrigation, drinking water, aquariums, and swimming pools....
used mainly as a high volume water filter. The filter works more quickly when the water supplied is under pressure. As other filters of its kind, it cannot filter virus

Virus

A virus is a Optical microscope#Limitations of light microscopes infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell . Viruses infect all cellular life....
es like Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A, , is an Acute infectious disease of the liver caused by Hepatitis A virus, which is most commonly transmitted by the fecal-oral route via contaminated food or drinking water....
and mycoplasma

Mycoplasma

Mycoplasma is a genus of bacterium which lack a cell wall. Without a cell wall, they are unaffected by many common antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis....
. It is used in removal of organisms from a fluid culture in order to obtain the bacterial toxin

Bacterial toxin

A bacterial toxin is a type of toxin that is generated by bacteria.Toxinosis is pathogenesis caused by the bacterial toxin alone, not necessarily involving bacterial infection It can be caused by Staphylococcus aureus toxins....
s.