If you could invent a new chemical compound, what would it be and what would it be used for?

Question: If you could invent a new chemical compound, what would it be and what would it be used for?
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Asked by gray520open on 7 Apr 2025.
- Charlotte Slade answered on 7 Apr 2025: last edited 7 Apr 2025 11:46
  
  If I could invent a new compound?
  A material that could absorb pollution from the air and convert it into clean energy!
  
  Imagine a coating on buildings that cleans the air just by being there, or a filter that turns car exhaust into electricity. It would be like giving the planet a giant, self-cleaning superpower (other than trees, plants, other stuff the Earth has already come up of course…)!

Question: If you could invent a new chemical compound, what would it be and what would it be used for?