Fluorine Facts
Fluorine Facts
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| Interesting Fluorine Facts: |
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| orge Gore seems to be the first scientist to isolate fluorine, but his experiment exploded when the fluorine that was produced reacted with hydrogen. |
| In 1906, Ferdinand Frederic Henri Moisson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work isolating fluorine in 1886. |
| It is difficult to store fluorine as it is corrosive to most metals. |
| Fluorine is the lightest of the halogens and has only one stable isotope, F-19. |
| It is the most electronegative element on Earth. |
| Fluorine is the thirteenth most abundant element in the Earth's crust. |
| The crust contains between 600 and 700 parts per million of fluorine. |
| It is usually only found in compounds due to its high level of reactivity. |
| Its most important mineral is fluorite, used as early as 1530 in smelting processes. |
| Its name comes from the source mineral, fluorite. |
| The dangerous nature of producing elemental fluorine keeps it in its more viable form, hydrofluoric acid, which is a $16 billion per year industry. |
| Fluorine is gaseous at room temperature, and its pale yellow color can only be viewed when looking down at it through a test tube; from the side, it is colorless. |
| It condenses to a bright yellow liquid at -188 °C (-307 °F). |
| Reactions with elemental fluorine can be very explosive without warning. |
| Fluorine is rare in the universe, at only 400 parts per billion. |
| Any fluorine created in stars quickly breaks down through nuclear fusion with hydrogen to produce helium and oxygen or with helium to make neon and hydrogen. |
| Fluorite mining produces approximately 4.5 million tons of the mineral per year which can be used for commercial fluorine purposes. |
| One form of fluorine used commercially is fluroide, which is applied as a treatment for dental health and added to water supplies in many places to increase tooth strength. |
| Fluorocarbons are produced as industrial coolants and propellants. |
| Fluoropolymers, whose most widely known brand name is Teflon, are produced in nearly 180,000 metric tons annually. |
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