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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago

“UCLA organic chemists have made phosphine behave like precious metal catalysts”

In layman's terms that means that they made a cheap phosphorus compound do the job of expensive metals, speeding chemical reactions without using rare, costly unobtanium.

Cool beans!