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Chemists at Colorado State University and the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei have learned how to use a catalyst combined with lightwaves to weaken or break the bond between carbon and fluorine atoms.
Chemists already knew how to dissolve these bonds in a chemical process, but that requires a huge amount of energy in the form of heat.
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