{"id":746223,"date":"2023-01-23T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746223"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:01:02","slug":"farewell-to-forever-destroying-pfas-by-grinding-it-up-with-a-new-additive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746223","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to &#039;forever&#039;: Destroying PFAS by grinding it up with a new additive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are potentially harmful substances known as &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; because they are so difficult to destroy. One emerging technique to degrade PFAS involves forcefully grinding them with metal balls in a moving container, but this technique can require corrosive additives. Now, in Environmental Science &amp; Technology Letters, researchers report a new type of additive for &#8220;ball milling&#8221; that completely breaks down PFAS at ambient temperature and pressure.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-farewell-destroying-pfas-additive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Farewell to &#8216;forever&#8217;: Destroying PFAS by grinding it up with a new additive<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are potentially harmful substances known as &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221; because they are so difficult to destroy. One emerging technique to degrade PFAS involves forcefully grinding them&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-746223","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\/746223","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=746223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746223\/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=746223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}