"Forever chemicals" used in daily items like nonstick pans have long been linked to serious health issues – a result of their toxicity and extreme resistance to being broken down as waste products.
Chemists in the United States and China on Thursday (Aug 18) said they had finally found a breakthrough method to degrade these polluting compounds, referred to as PFAS, using relatively low temperatures and common reagents.
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