Commuters rush by a tank of Perflourocarbon PFC gas in front of Pennsylvania Station in New York City In a test funded by the federal government PFC a colorless harmless gas is being released into the atmosphere in a simulation of a terrorist attack A series of monitoring devices on the street on rooftops and in a van track the progress of the gas The monitors can detect minute traces of PFC in micrograms as small as one part in a quadrillion

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