Can you reuse urine?

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Can you reuse urine?

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answered Sep 26, 2022 by Gangass (9,300 points)
Urine can be reused such as for cleaning, drinking, for plants etc.

Urine is commonly turned into drinking water through a filtering process that the astronauts use on board of the space station.

You can drink urine and urine can also be turned into drinking water as astronauts recycle their urine into drinking water to drink while in space.

A person can drink urine as urine is 95 percent water and is pretty sterile when it comes out of your body.

Drinking urine is safe in the short term but it can be bad for your health in the long term.

A healthy person's urine is about 95 percent water and sterile, so in the short term it's safe to drink and does replenish lost water.

But the other 5 percent of urine comprises a diverse collection of waste products, including nitrogen, potassium, and calcium—and too much of these can cause problems.

Human urine is good for things such as use as fertilizer and as a cleaning agent as well.

Romans actually used human urine as a teeth cleanser to brush their teeth with although it's gross.

Recycled and aged human urine can be used as a fertilizer with low risks of transferring antibiotic resistant DNA to the environment, according to new research from the University of Michigan.

Urine does eventually turn into ammonia.

When the urine is exposed to air it eventually starts to turn to ammonia and you can smell the ammonia odor from the urine.

Almost all of the valuable nitrogen in urine is in the form of urea, a chemical that is used as the world's most commonly applied nitrogen fertilizer.

But a fast-acting enzyme called urease is invariably present inside wastewater pipes and converts urea to ammonia.

Ancient Romans brushed their teeth with human urine and animal urine as well as powdered mouse brains.

The Romans did really brush their teeth with urine.

Although it sounds gross and is really gross urine does make a good cleansing agent for teeth.

Romans also used urine as a mouthwash along with using urine to brush teeth with.

The urine contains ammonia, a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, that is capable of acting as a cleansing agent.

Ancient Romans used to use both human and animal urine as mouthwash in order to whiten their teeth.

The Romans used to buy bottles of Portuguese urine and use that as a rinse.

Importing bottled urine became so popular that the emperor Nero taxed the trade.

The ammonia in urine was thought to disinfect mouths and whiten teeth, and urine remained a popular mouthwash ingredient until the 18th century.

Romans also used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste.

The Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste.

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