Volcanoes belch an impressive array of organic chemicals into the air, but ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are an insignificant part of that mix, a new study finds.
An international team of researchers collected and analyzed gas samples from four volcanoes in Japan and Italy. They identified more than 300 organic substances, but only one of them was a CFC.
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