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Tethys consists of three main components,a disposable cartridge that forms a circuit with an Arduino processor that has exposed chlorides of nanotubes.The core device having a processor with a Bluetooth extension 9-volt battery and a slot to insert the disposable cartridge.And lastly a smartphone that connects over Bluetooth to display results.
特提斯构造由三个主要部分组成，一次性墨盒形成电路, 由一个能使氯化物处于纳米管作用下的开源电路处理器构成；核心装置是由一个具有9伏电压电池的蓝牙扩展设备和能插入一次性墨盒处理器的接入槽组成；最后是一台通过蓝牙连接以显示结果的智能手机。

11-year-old Gitanjali Rao from Lone Tree Colorado wanted to do something about the problem of lead in drinking water.
来自科罗拉多州，隆纳特里的11岁的吉檀迦利饶，想解决关于饮用水中铅的问题。

Through following the Flint, Michigan, water crisis for about two years,I realized that I wanted to create a device to help my parents with fast lead and water testing and the resins of Flint and even other places like around the world.
通过密歇根州弗林特爆发的持续两年的水危机来看，我意识到我想创建一个设备，帮助我的父母能快速的测试水中的铅含量和树脂，包括弗林特，甚至世界各地的其他地方。

Rao named her device Tethys after the Greek Goddess of fresh water and says it takes just a few seconds to determine whether the water is safe.
饶把她的设备命名为“希腊淡水女神”，她说只需几秒钟就能确定水是否安全。

What you do is first dip a disposable cartridge which can easily be removed and attached to the core device in the water you wish to test.Once you do that, that’s basically the whole manual part, then you just pull out an app on your phone and check your status and um it looks like the water in this container is safe.
第一步你要做的就是浸泡一次性墨盒，它可以很容易和主设备连接或分离。等你完成这步之后，整个手动部分就基本结束了，然后你只要打开你手机里的应用，并检查状态，嗯，这个容器中的水应该是安全的。

It took her five months to make Tethys from start to finish.
她花了五个月的时间才完成特提斯。

My first couple times when I was doing my experimentation and tests, I did fail so many time and it was frustrating but I knew that it was just a learning experience and I could definitely develop my device where thereby doing even more testsand getting advice from my mentor as well, so, never be afraid to try.
一开始，当我前几次在做我的实验和测试时，我失败了好多次，感到非常沮丧，但我也知道这只是学习过程中的经验和教训，由此我可以更好的发展我的装置，从而做更多的测试，我也得到了我导师的建议，所以不要害怕尝试。

Rao plans to put most of the 25,000 prize money back into a project with the hope of making Tethys commercially available.
饶计划把大部分25000的奖金重新投入到项目中，以使特提斯能够更商业化，更容易买到。

I am Faith Lapidus, VOA News.
美国之音，Faith Lapidus报道。