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Bonus Episode: Question and Response 48

In this month's bonus episode, Melissa and Jam respond to comments and questions about shoes, freeze-drying, water filters, botox, and more!

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• Emerson Woodhall


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• Chris Skupien


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#169

Time for some action. This week on our "forever chemicals" aka PFAs series, get ready to talk about what we can do about PFAs. Can we get rid of them? Can we filter them? Destroy them? Once and for all? Let's find out.

We want to give a  special thank you to Bri McAllister for illustrating molecules for this weeks episode! Please go check out Bri’s art, follow and support her at entr0pic.artstation.com and @McAllisterBri on twitter!

References from this Episode

1. https://www.epa.gov/pfas/meaningful-and-achievable-steps-you-can-take-reduce-your-risk


2. https://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/reducing-pfas-drinking-water-treatment-technologies


3. https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/questions-and-answers-pfas-food


4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/granular-activated-carbon


5. https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Forever-chemicals-technologies-aim-destroy/97/i12


6. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/how-to-put-an-end-to-forever-chemicals-and-annihilate-pfas-pollution/4016018.article


7. https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/hazardous/topics/gac.html


8. https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/and-polyfluoroalkyl-substances-pfas


9. https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/03/epa-proposes-bold-new-limits-tackling-forever-chemicals-drinking#:~:text=The%20MCLs%20announced%20are%204,risks%20from%20mixtures%20of%20chemicals

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#045 Rebroadcast

The continuation of the unexpected cookware chemistry saga: cast iron. This week, Melissa and Jam discuss multiple aspects of cast iron chemistry. What is cast iron? Why do some people love it so much? How does it work? Is it better than other cookware? If you haven't listened to our two teflon "prequel" episodes, click here!

References from this episode

1. Let's Settle This! How to Care for Cast-Iron - American Chemical Society - Reactions


2. The Food Lab - J. Kenji López-Alt


3. General Chemistry, Edition 2 - Flowers, Theopold, Langley, Robinson

Thanks to our monthly supporters

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• shadow


• Emerson Woodhall


• Kristina Gotfredsen


• Timothy Parker


• Steven Boyles


• Chris Skupien


• Chelsea B


• Bri McAllister


• Avishai Barnoy


• Hunter Reardon

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Halloween exclusive shirt!
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#168

Continuing our series on "forever chemicals" aka PFAs, we explore how we got into this situation. Where did PFAs come from? Why were they made? Were there any signs of PFAs being a problem early on? Let's investigate.

We want to give a  special thank you to Bri McAllister for illustrating molecules for this weeks episode! Please go check out Bri’s art, follow and support her at entr0pic.artstation.com and @McAllisterBri on twitter!

References from this Episode

1. https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/ptfe/3005920.article?adredir=1


2. https://www.teflon.com/en/news-events/history


3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530144/


4. https://www.investors.dupont.com/news-and-media/press-release-details/2023/Chemours-DuPont-and-Corteva-Reach-Comprehensive-PFAS-Settlement-with-U.S.-Water-Systems/default.aspx

Thanks to our monthly supporters

• Rachel Reina


• Letila


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• Suzanne Phillips


• Nelly Silva


• Venus Rebholz


• Lyn Stubblefield


• Jacob Taber


• Brian Kimball


• shadow


• Emerson Woodhall


• Kristina Gotfredsen


• Timothy Parker


• Steven Boyles


• Chris Skupien


• Chelsea B


• Bri McAllister


• Avishai Barnoy


• Hunter Reardon

Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com

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Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

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Halloween exclusive shirt!
We made a shirt with a ghost holding an Erlenmeyer flask! The perfect combo of chemistry and halloween!
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Bonus Episode: Question and Response 47

In this month's bonus episode, Melissa and Jam respond to comments and questions about silicone, coffee, pizza stones, hotdogs, and more!

Thanks to our monthly supporters

• Rachel Reina


• Letila


• Katrina Barnum-Huckins


• Suzanne Phillips


• Nelly Silva


• Venus Rebholz


• Lyn Stubblefield


• Jacob Taber


• Brian Kimball


• shadow


• Emerson Woodhall


• Kristina Gotfredsen


• Timothy Parker


• Steven Boyles


• Chris Skupien


• Chelsea B


• Bri McAllister


• Avishai Barnoy


• Hunter Reardon

Check out our website at chemforyourlife.com

Watch our episodes on YouTube

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Want to start your own podcast? Use Transistor and you'll have the best podcast platform available. We use it and we are totally in love with it.