Fluorine

Authors

Richard H. Langley, Stephen F Austin State UniversityFollow
Larry Welch, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1983

Abstract

Considering the long time in which fluorine compounds have been used it seems rather surprising that it was not isolated as an element until 1886. This long delay was not due to lack of effort, but to the reactivity of fluorine and the hazards of working with it and many of its compounds.

Comments

"Fluorine." Journal of Chemical Education 60, no. 9 (1983): 759.

Archived with permission from the American Chemical Society.

Repository Citation

Langley, Richard H. and Welch, Larry, "Fluorine" (1983). Faculty Publications. 35.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/chemistry_facultypubs/35