Fluorine forms a great variety of chemical compounds, within which it always adopts an oxidation state of −1. With other atoms, fluorine forms either polar...

War II. Owing to the expense of refining pure fluorine, most commercial applications use fluorine compounds, with about half of mined fluorite used in steelmaking...

the chemistry of organofluorine compounds, organic compounds that contain a carbon–fluorine bond. Organofluorine compounds find diverse applications ranging...

Fluorocarbons are chemical compounds with carbon-fluorine bonds. Compounds that contain many C-F bonds often have distinctive properties, e.g., enhanced[clarification...

industrial source of fluorine, often in the form of hydrofluoric acid, and is an important feedstock in the preparation of many important compounds including pharmaceuticals...

Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (fluorine NMR or 19F NMR) is an analytical technique used to detect and identify fluorine-containing...

everyday life, fluorine-containing compounds such as fluorite occur naturally as minerals. Naturally occurring organofluorine compounds are extremely rare...

hazards of handling fluorine gas. Many commercially important organic compounds are fluorinated using this technology. Unsaturated compounds, especially alkenes...

The carbon–fluorine bond is a polar covalent bond between carbon and fluorine that is a component of all organofluorine compounds. It is one of the strongest...

They include PCBs, PBDEs, and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), as well as numerous other compounds. Fluorine reacts vigorously with water to produce oxygen...

number of xenon compounds have been discovered and described. Almost all known xenon compounds contain the electronegative atoms fluorine or oxygen. The...

Electrophilic fluorination is the combination of a carbon-centered nucleophile with an electrophilic source of fluorine to afford organofluorine compounds. Although...

Dioxygen difluoride is a compound of fluorine and oxygen with the molecular formula O2F2. It can exist as an orange-red colored solid which melts into...

Fluorine nitrate is an unstable derivative of nitric acid with the formula FNO 3. It is shock-sensitive. Due to its instability, it is often produced from...

Fluoride (/ˈflʊəraɪd, ˈflɔːr-/) is an inorganic, monatomic anion of fluorine, with the chemical formula F− (also written [F]− ), whose salts are typically...

fluoride is an interhalogen compound containing only chlorine and fluorine. National Pollutant Inventory - Fluoride compounds fact sheet NIST Standard Reference...

greenhouse effect thousands of times stronger than that of CO2. Fluorine-based compounds such as sulphur hexafluoride and perfluorocarbons are preferable...

fluorocarbon-based organofluorine compounds. The general approach represents an application of electrosynthesis. The fluorinated chemical compounds produced by ECF are...

process, gaseous inorganic chlorine compounds are either not emitted at all, or in very small quantities only. Of the fluorine present in rotary kilns, 90 to...

they strengthen as more carbon–fluorine bonds are added to the same carbon. In the one-carbon organofluorine compounds represented by molecules of fluoromethane...

electronegativity higher than bromine's (oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, and chlorine), so that the resultant binary compounds are formally not bromides but rather oxides...

that fluorine was a bound element within compounds, similar to chlorine. Fluorite was determined to be calcium fluoride. Because of fluorine's tight...

monofluoride is a binary inorganic compound radical of fluorine and oxygen with the chemical formula O2F. The compound is stable only at low temperature...

Fluorine azide or triazadienyl fluoride is a yellow green gas composed of nitrogen and fluorine with formula FN3. Its properties resemble those of ClN3...

San Diego: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-352651-5. Kwasnik, W. (1963). "Fluorine compounds: Sulfur tetrafluoride". In Brauer, Georg (ed.). Handbook of Preparative...

boiling point near room temperature. It is used to make most fluorine-containing compounds; examples include the commonly used pharmaceutical antidepressant...

l'existence d'un composé oxygéné du fluor" [The existence of an oxygen compound of fluorine]. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences...

sulfur-nitrogen-fluorine compounds. It is notable for its extreme hygroscopicity. Thiazyl fluoride can be synthesized by various methods, such as fluorination of tetrasulfur...

Fluoroacetic acid. Timperley, Christopher M. (2000). "Highly-toxic fluorine compounds". Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium. pp. 499–538. doi:10.1016/B978-008043405-6/50040-2...

In chemistry, an interhalogen compound is a molecule which contains two or more different halogen atoms (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, or astatine)...