PFAS are made up of a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds, which make them difficult to break down.
  • tyler@programming.devEnglish
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    5 days ago

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

  • kunegis@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds

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

      • kunegis@mander.xyzEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

        • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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          2 days ago

          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.