Fluorine gas (F 2), which has been called chemistry’s hellcat, is so reactive that chemists have long assumed it does not occur in nature. Now researchers in Munich have evidence that the gas exists ...

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Researchers synthesize fluorine-based compound via rapid biphasic (gas and liquid) mixing. How short is one second? The duration of a second can be defined as one 86,400 th of a 24-hour day. A bullet ...

Talk about tough competition. According to a document prepared by the Swedish-French Association for Research, on Sept. 21, 1906, as the Nobel committee debated whom to recommend to the Royal Swedish ...

I was looking at the periodic table of the elements the other day, as one does, when my eye fell upon the right-hand side of the chart. Right next to the noble gases at the extreme edge of the table ...

Organic chemistry is about to have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, ...

We now know a lot about fluorine. The lightest of the halogen elements with one single stable isotope, fluorine has an atomic number 9 and symbol F. It is one of the most reactive elements, capable of ...

Molecular fluorine for CVD chamber cleans. Figure 1: Fluorine generation by electrolysis of HF. Image courtesy Linde Electronics Paul Stockman, head of market development for Linde Electronics, said ...

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