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Pollutants plucked from air with copper

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Fortuitous catalyst discovery offers a new way to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In an accidental discovery, chemists have stumbled on a catalyst that strips only carbon dioxide from the air — ignoring oxygen — and converts it into a useful compound.

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  1. Angamuthu, R., Byers, P., Lutz, M., Spek, A. L. & Bouwman, E. Science 327, 313-315 (2010).

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  1. Katharine Sanderson
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Sanderson, K. Pollutants plucked from air with copper. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.12

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