Alarming news: A new study finds that several brands of fitness tracker and smartwatch bands contain “very high ...

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 ...

A University at Buffalo study reveals that a strain isolated from contaminated soil can break down the strong carbon-fluorine ...

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 ...

An example of the optimal application of F3. Credit: US Naval Research Laboratory and John P. Farley et al.

Researchers found that chemicals, including PFAS, from pharmaceuticals are entering into wastewater — which can be used as drinking water during times of drought.

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 ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...

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

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...