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by ALittleLight 1917 days ago
Why would a filter on a kettle remove what a filter on a jug doesn't?
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developer92 1917 days ago
A jug filter is much bigger and uses a different mechanism, a kettle filter is just a mesh to anything bigger than a large grain of sand in the kettle.
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sneak 1917 days ago
Because the concentrations in the kettle increase locally due to boiling, and there is precipitate that doesn't happen in the filter jug.
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