One product already on the market is a super-growth-carbon-nanotube-enhanced fluorine rubber O-ring seal for machinery operating at high temperatures and pressures. Conventional fluorine rubbers ...

The study concluded that wristbands over $30 contained a higher level of fluorine than cheaper priced ones under $15. Of the 20 distinct PFAS tested, researchers found that PFHxA was the most common, ...

Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to facilitate smelting. As early as the seventeenth century, fluorspar was ...

Smartwatches and fitness trackers may inadvertently expose wearers to harmful substances known as “forever chemicals ”, according to a new study. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...

More expensive wristbands made from fluorinated synthetic rubber revealed particularly high amounts of one forever chemical ... Peaslee and co-authors Alyssa Wicks and Heather Whitehead investigated ...

The study found that more expensive wristbands made of fluorinated synthetic rubber revealed particularly high amounts of PFHxA, with fluorine levels generally found to be higher. Bands costing ...