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jeffw@lemmy.world to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago

We developed a way to use light to dismantle PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ – long-lasting environmental pollutants

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We developed a way to use light to dismantle PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ – long-lasting environmental pollutants

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jeffw@lemmy.world to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago
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PFAS are made up of a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds, which make them difficult to break down.
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    I wonder if this will ever scale to wastewater treatment.

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    a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds

    Pedantic mode: The longest chain of C-F bonds you can have has length two.

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      their example seems to have 10. is it just fake?

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        You can have as many C-F bonds as you want i a single molecule, but not in a chain, because F will be connected to only a single C.

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    This is super promising. Sad that it doesn’t work on Teflon yet, but hopefully they can get it there.

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