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Comment by sbierwagen

The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8868

The "soap and solvent" is sodium hydroxide (lye) and DMSO at 120 degC. Those are... fairly... well behaved chemicals, but lye is stout stuff and DMSO attacks nitrile gloves.

You could imagine a remediation process that uses this process but the combo ain't exactly Dawn dish soap. I'd almost prefer pyroprocessing over it.

parent sbierwagen 4 years ago

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