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Herman Pratt
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2023
I ordered the 1.5 micron filter paper. I placed a drop from a culture of microalgae onto the filter paper. Microalgae which were 20 micron at the smallest diameter were able to get through the paper. It did filter most of the algae, but plenty of algae got through. I looked at some of the filter paper under the microscope and there is a bunch of threads or fibers going in random directions that make up the filter, and I believe that while the typical hole size may have been measured to be 1.5 micron, this filter paper will not retain some particles which are of 20 micron size roughly, but it may retain most of them. Overall, I was expecting a 1.5 micron filter to retain essentially all particles of 20 micron size since the difference in size is so large. Make sure that you understand that the filter paper may have holes over an order of magnitude larger than the specified filter size.
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