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Packaged ice manufacturing requires severe water filtration

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Selling frozen water in a bag requires baffling levels of industrial purification. Commercial ice facilities must violently strip out all minerals and trapped air using reverse osmosis just to achieve that perfectly clear, unnervingly uniform cube.

Packaged ice manufacturing requires severe water filtration
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