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2. University Press Releases are so fun. If one enters the terms MOF, PFAS degradation and gamma radiation one gets...
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 09:32 AM
Dec 30

...more than 3,000 hits in 0.13 seconds, substitute UV, and one gets 4,000 hits, again in 0.13 seconds, and visible light, close to 7000 hits.

Many MOF's (metal organic frameworks) are commercially available.

Pretty much every issue of Environmental Science and Technology has a few articles on the topic. In a year, I might come across close to 100 papers on the topic.

Here's a post I wrote referencing one sometime ago: Ecological Risk of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Degradation Products.

Here's another post wherein I discussed the topic: The Effect of Brine on the Radiation Driven Near Complete Destruction of "Forever Chemicals"

The world supply of boron nitride, which is produced at very high temperatures - and no, the closed Ivanpah solar facility will not produce these temperatures for boron nitride synthesis - is on the order of 300 metric tons.

One would think, given the thousands upon thousands of scientific papers written on breaking one of the strongest carbon bonds known, that to fluorine, all these "breakthroughs," we'd be saved, but we haven't been and we aren't.

Credulity is itself a problem.

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