Scientists have discovered a new way to break apart 'forever chemicals', the notoriously stubborn pollutants that contaminate our waterways and threaten public health, contributing to a growing list of potential methods of dealing with the long-lived...
This is where the new process comes in. It works by bubbling hydrogen gas through contaminated water to ionize the water molecules . This generates reactive species including hydrated electrons that then attack the strong bonds holding PFAS chemicals together.
So far the researchers have only tested their method on small volumes of tap water spiked with PFOA and PFOS, two types of forever chemicals.
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