Lucy Carpenter

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Discovery · The Life Scientific: Lucy Carpenter · 11 May 2026 podcast

Many of them aren't actually more harmful than CFCs as greenhouse gases.

But some of them are pretty potent.

And now, really, they are being swapped out for shorter-lived HFCs, called HFOs.

Now, they may bring their own problems as well.

I mean, really, there is no perfect fluorinated chemical that you can put into the environment.

A tomboyish, I would say.

Offered my bike the whole time.

Went to a local school and I liked all subjects at school, really.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

But we had a very excellent chemistry teacher that did those sort of old school demonstrations that perhaps don't happen anymore.

You know, setting fire to potassium on water.

So I think that got my interest in chemistry going.

So that's what I ended up applying to do at university.

Right.

They did indeed.

I don't think I was a natural in the laboratory to start with.

So on my very first chemistry experiment in the labs, I ended up in A&E because I still have a slight scar actually on my finger.

It's where I tried to put a teat on a burette and rather enthusiastically managed to get the glass into my finger.

So I was never going to make an organic chemist, someone who was in the lab making chemicals.

But I did like the...

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