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Field Trip: An Airport Full of Neuroscientists

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Chemical That Makes Fire Extinguishers Work

PFAS is a chemical group at the end and the carbon and fluorine that makes them great at waterproofing things stain-proofing things water repelling things as well as quenching fires. So they're found in consumer goods waterproof makeup your pizza box why does the cheese on your pizza box just slide right off? It's because it has a chemical on it separating it but the one that i'm studying it's called perfluoro hexanoic acid so it's got a real ugly name a fluoro Hexanoic Acid.

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