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

https://theconversation.com/we-developed-a-way-to-use-light-to-dismantle-pfas-forever-chemicals-long-lasting-environmental-pollutants-244263
Idontevenknowanymore - 1.0yr

I wonder if this will ever scale to wastewater treatment.

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tyler @programming.dev - 1.0yr

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

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kunegis - 1.0yr

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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HubertManne - 1.0yr

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

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kunegis - 1.0yr

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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HubertManne - 1.0yr

yeah I think it was refering to a carbon chain that contains c-f bonds on the carbon. not a chaain of c-f bonds. EDITED - ah I finally noticed the pedantic mode which I must have glossed over before.

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