{"id":221638,"date":"2025-09-10T03:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/worse-than-we-thought-forever-chemicals-are-far-more-acidic-than-previously-believed"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:37:25","slug":"worse-than-we-thought-forever-chemicals-are-far-more-acidic-than-previously-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/worse-than-we-thought-forever-chemicals-are-far-more-acidic-than-previously-believed","title":{"rendered":"Worse Than We Thought: \u201cForever Chemicals\u201d Are Far More Acidic Than Previously Believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worse-than-we-thought-forever-chemicals-are-far-more-acidic-than-previously-believed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New and more precise acidity measurements may help make PFAS easier to track. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are nicknamed \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in part because their acidity helps them linger in the environment. Many of these toxic chemicals are strongly acidic, so they readily shed p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New and more precise acidity measurements may help make PFAS easier to track. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are nicknamed \u201cforever chemicals\u201d in part because their acidity helps them linger in the environment. Many of these toxic chemicals are strongly acidic, so they readily shed p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}