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PFAS chemicals do not last forever as adding iodide to a water treatment reactor using UV light and sulfite can kill its carbon-fluorine atoms

Holly Ober at Phys Org reports about the once dubbed “forever chemicals,” per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, might be in the market for a new nickname.That’s because adding iodide to a water treatment reactor that uses ultraviolet (UV) light and sulfite destroys up to 90% of carbon-fluorine atoms in PFAS forever chemicals in just a…

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