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		entwife on Aug 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ball milling destroys PFAS in contaminated soil Where does the fluorine end up after this process?

andrewflnr on Aug 15, 2023 [–]

Presumably bonded to something other than carbon. In particular I'm guessing it gets pushed to ionic bonds, in the form of fluoride, which is much less scary than perfluoro-crap or (god forbid) elemental fluorine.

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