Fluorine may interact with biological systems in the form of fluorine-containing compounds. Though elemental fluorine (F2) is very rare in everyday life...

and fluorine, hydrogen is being oxidized and fluorine is being reduced: H2 + F2 → 2 HF This reaction is spontaneous and releases 542 kJ per 2 g of hydrogen...

also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology, is the application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological,...

17 of the periodic table. Its properties are thus similar to those of fluorine, chlorine, and iodine, and tend to be intermediate between those of the...

oxide layer nevertheless does not prevent reaction with the halogens; fluorine attacks silicon vigorously at room temperature, chlorine does so at about...

of other aspects of each organism. The noble gases helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon are nonreactive and have no known direct biological role — albeit...

trioxide compound tungsten(VI), WO3. It will, however, react directly with fluorine (F2) at room temperature to form tungsten(VI) fluoride (WF6), a colorless...

substances (PFAS or PFASs) are a group of synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain; there...

provided the transformation can undergo this type of conformational control in the transition state. Fluorine directed glycosylations represent an encouraging...

covalent radius of 71 pm is smaller than those of boron (84 pm) and carbon (76 pm), while it is larger than those of oxygen (66 pm) and fluorine (57 pm). The...

fluorination reactions, reacts vigorously with water. The inventory of complexes is very large. Starting with higher oxidation states, complexes of Co(IV)...

ISBN 0-13-841891-8. Court, T. L.; Dove, M. F. A. (1973). "Fluorine compounds of nickel(III)". Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (19): 1995...

monosulfide (CuS). Cuprous halides with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are known, as are cupric halides with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. Attempts...

have half-lives suitable for biological scientific experiments. These are: 32 P, a beta-emitter (1.71 MeV) with a half-life of 14.3 days, which is used routinely...

the Earth's thermostat. Aspects of the carbonate-silicate cycle have changed through Earth history as a result of biological evolution and tectonic changes...

iodine as equivalent halogens, but does not measure fluorine levels in the sample. Utilization of halogen containing materials in processes such as water...

reactive one. When comparing carbon-halogen bonds, lighter halogens such as fluorine and chlorine have a better orbital overlap with carbon, which makes the...

the same thing as uptake by a biological system. Diverse ions are used by animals and microorganisms for the process of mineralizing structures, called...

because they generate a greenhouse effect thousands of times stronger than that of CO2. Fluorine-based compounds such as sulphur hexafluoride and perfluorocarbons...

long-term memory and make the process of consolidation easier. Many chemistry aspects, rules, names of compounds, sequences of elements, their reactivity, etc...

humans, the biological roles of zinc are ubiquitous. It interacts with "a wide range of organic ligands", and has roles in the metabolism of RNA and DNA...

isotope of fluorine is attached to a molecule and is preferably performed by nucleophilic substitution using nitro or halogens as leaving groups. Fluorine-18...

a combination of a noble gas (argon, krypton, or xenon) and a reactive gas (fluorine or chlorine). Under the appropriate conditions of electrical stimulation...

General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 6th ed., HarperCollinsCollege, ISBN 978-0-673-99054-9 Toon R 2011, "The discovery of fluorine", Education in Chemistry...

molecular fluorine: 2   C m F 3   +   F 2   ⟶   2   C m F 4 {\displaystyle \mathrm {2\ CmF_{3}\ +\ F_{2}\ \longrightarrow \ 2\ CmF_{4}} } A series of ternary...

used for production of fluorine-18 in radiopharmaceuticals and radiotracers, and positron emission tomography. Small amounts of 17 O and 18 O are naturally...

[citation needed] Cuprous halides with fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine are known, as are cupric halides with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. Attempts...

during the processing of the ores of other metals, chiefly from sphalerite and other zinc sulfide ores. Indium has no biological role and its compounds...

corrosive than other chlorinated solvents. It does not tend to polymerise like fluorine analogue tetrafluoroethylene, C2F4. Tetrachloroethylene may react violently...

molecular fluorine: 2   C m F 3   +   F 2   ⟶   2   C m F 4 {\displaystyle \mathrm {2\ CmF_{3}\ +\ F_{2}\ \longrightarrow \ 2\ CmF_{4}} } A series of ternary...