{"id":1767,"date":"2018-05-07T07:37:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2018-03-05T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:44:45","slug":"good-feels-10-12-year-old-girl-invents-lead-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/general\/good-feels-10-12-year-old-girl-invents-lead-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Feels #10: 12-year-old Girl Invents Fast Lead Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2014 the source for drinking water in Flint, Michigan was changed and residents were exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water. A federal state of emergency was declared and residents were instructed to drink bottled water.<\/p>\n

Gitanjali Rao heard about these events and invented a lead detecting device at the age of 12. Instead of a several day process to send samples to a lab and get results back, her device detects lead in seconds using carbon molecules.<\/p>\n

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In 2014 the source for drinking water in Flint, Michigan was changed and residents were exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water. A federal state of emergency was declared and residents were instructed to drink bottled water. Gitanjali Rao heard about these events and invented a lead detecting device at the age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4JFvt-sv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spokt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}