but it can also render organic compounds highly toxic or pollutants. Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to ...

Even though the town learned in July last year that perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and other organic fluorine compounds were present in local tap water, it held off making an announcement ...

PFAS could be the rare environmental issue that gets addressed this term.

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Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

High levels of harmful organic fluorine compounds were found in blood samples of residents living in the Tama area of western Tokyo. The leader of the study said contamination could be coming from ...

Fluorine compounds fall into two broad categories: organic and inorganic. Both categories have a wide range of industrial uses. Organic fluorides are compounds where fluorine is bound to carbon ...

Their findings suggest wastewater treatment plants across the US discharge tens of thousands of kilograms of fluorine-containing compounds into the environment each year, including a substantial ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial & Appeal Board obviousness determination even though it found the Board ...

Now, thanks to surrogate methods that allow us to indirectly measure total PFAS concentrations, we know that there are thousands of organic fluorine compounds that are not being captured by the ...

The team is also eager to extend the techniques to other challenging compounds relevant to nuclear processes, such as those ...