{"id":711222,"date":"2021-12-15T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711222"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:00:02","slug":"forever-chemicals-latch-onto-sea-spray-to-become-airborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711222","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Forever chemicals&#039; latch onto sea spray to become airborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When ocean waves break, microscopic particles break free into the air. For beachgoers, aerosolized sea salts contribute to the tousled &#8220;beach hair&#8221; look. But other compounds found in seawater, including perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), could become airborne as bubbles pop at the water&#8217;s surface. Now, researchers reporting in ACS&#8217; Environmental Science &amp; Technology have observed in a thorough field study that sea spray pollutes the air in coastal areas with these potentially harmful chemicals.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-12-chemicals-latch-sea-airborne.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Forever chemicals&#8217; latch onto sea spray to become airborne<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ocean waves break, microscopic particles break free into the air. For beachgoers, aerosolized sea salts contribute to the tousled &#8220;beach hair&#8221; look. But other compounds found in seawater, including&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}