Cocoa pods — a source of chocolate, and potentially, flame retardants (IMAGE)

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Cocoa pods — a source of chocolate, and potentially, flame retardants

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Cocoa pods, like this one with parts of the husk removed for analyses, could be a useful starting material for flame retardants.

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Dimitris Charalampopoulos

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