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Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
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The paper can be accessed from this site: https://yaghi.berkeley.edu/publications.html
The molecular structure of the powder:
The notable thing seems to not be that it can absorb (and desorb) CO~2~, but that it can undergo hundreds of cycles with little degredation.
I'm not a chemist, but from what I can tell it's created using cesium salt as a precursor or catalyst. This doesn't sound like something punks can safely mix in a bathtub.