ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Scientists at Sandia National Labs say they have developed new technology that can detect PFAS chemicals in only minutes. Researchers say it can take weeks and hundreds of dollars to test water samples that may contain the dangerous forever chemicals.
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But a team at Sandia has developed a machine called the Mass Spectrometer that can detect and remove PFAS from samples to measure their concentration. They say the new technology can also be used to detect a variety of chemicals.
“Like ibuprofen, for example, we demonstrated it worked for that, some industrial things like triethlamine, or tetile dye, we tried it with a few different things,”…