Abstract: A method for manufacturing ceramic bails for water treatment capable of exerting microbicidal activity in water and solution is provided. The method includes producing a first composition by dissolving borax (Na2B4O7.10H2O) and copper sulfate (CuSO4.5H2O) in an equivalent ratio of 1:1 to water, and drying the solution to produce a first composition, producing a second composition by adding silica to a first mixture of nitric acid and silver mixed in an equivalent ratio of 1:1 while heating the first mixture, adding more than 3 weight percents of the first composition to 200 weight percents of distilled water based on 100 weight percents of a ceramic ball while heating the distilled water, adding more than 8 weight percents of the second composition to a second mixture of the first composition and the distilled water when a total weight of the second mixture is reduced by a half, and drying the second mixture; and dehydrating the second mixture at a temperature of 400° C. to 500° C.

Abstract: A method for extracting silica from herbaceous plant capable of extracting high purity amorphous silica from seed shell of various herbaceous plants is provided. The method includes carbonizing a herbaceous plant and pulverizing a carbide of the plant to a size of at least 50 mesh, adding at least 5% (w/w) aqueous alkaline solution based on 100 weight percents of the carbide, leaving a reactant of the solution and the carbide for 1 hour at about 45° C. and filtering the reactant, slowly heating the reactant to a predetermined temperature, dropping sulfuric acid to the reactant at the predetermined temperature until the sulfuric acid is neutralized, and evaporating and drying the reactant to produce silica.