Fluorine salts, known as fluorides, were for welding and for frosting glass. The element is used to make uranium hexafluoride. It is needed by the nuclear power industry to separate uranium isotopes.
Fluorine is used in many fluorochemicals, including solvents and high-temperature plastics, such as Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene), PTFE). Its non-stick properties makes it ideal to use in frying pans.
Hydrofluoric acid is used for etching the glass of light bulbs and in similar applications.
CFCs (chloro-fluoro-carbons) were once used as aerosol propellants, refrigerants and for ‘blowing’ expanded polystyrene. However, their inertness meant that they diffused and destroyed the Earth’s ozone layer. Fluoride is an essential ion for animals because it strengthens teeth. It is added to drinking water for
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Fluorocarbons are used in refrigeration and air conditioning. One chemical property of fluorine is that it creates a very strong bond with other atoms. Meaning that all of the products that are created with fluorine in them are much stronger than products created with different chemical compounds. Furthermore, it can be used to help molten metal flow. It is very useful in situations where molten metal must not stand still, but cannot move on its own. It allows a person to work with metal easier, because the metal is able to flow more smoothly.
Another benefit of fluorine compounds to humans, but a disadvantage to insects and pests is that it can be made in pesticides. This makes it very useful against household pests such as cockroaches and other bugs. It is highly poisonous, so there is little chance of re-infestation after fluorine based pesticides have been used. This is why it is a very important molecule in some of these pesticides. Homes can be easily eradicated of bugs. Many people choose to use insecticides with fluorine without even knowing that they are doing
It’s main use, before the decrease in lead gasoline, was in the use of the additive ethylene dibromide. Other bromine combinations were once used in pesticides, insecticides, and disinfectants (Schroeder, 2014). In today’s society, Bromine’s most-common use is in methyl bromide, a fumigant. Other uses include being incorporated into some medicines such as anesthetics and sedatives. Halogens, in general, are often used for flame-retardants. The most effective include Bromine. Another important contribution to society is being a part water filtration. “Inorganic bromine compounds function in water sanitation, and silver bromide is used in photographic film. Bromine also appears in quartz-halide light bulbs.” (Schroeder,
Fluorine is an element that reacts with minerals in the earth to create a salt. The salt is often naturally occurring in nature and is found in very small amounts in urban and rural wells. Although it is
When combined with other elements, fluorine can reduce incidents of deficiencies related to brain function and chemical pathways required for the body to function and maintain
Fluorine is the most reactive element of them all, it reacts to almost anything. It is so reactive that storing it is so difficult. It is a poisonous pale yellow gas. It is part of the non-metal and halogen family. Fluorine is so strong and dangerous that it can burn through human skin. In the periodic table it is element number nine(9). Fluorine has a mass of 18.9984032, it can be rounded to 19. It contains of 9 protons, 9 electrons and 10 neutrons. Fluorine is one of the rare elements that is able to attack diamond.
This study demonstrates that fluoride causes harmful, effects not only on the human nervous system, but also on the animal's nervous system. Based on the studies done on humans and rats, fluoride solution will cause the structural and functional damages to the chick embryo nervous system development.
Fluoride is a naturally occurring nutrient that can be found in food and drinks especially in water, however in extremely small amounts
Sodium fluoride is used in most toothpastes, mouthwashes, dental varnish, dental preparations, and nutritional supplements. Sodium fluoride is also utilized for the fabrication of chemical and biological weapons. Although this form of fluoride can be used
Fluoride can be found most commonly within our drinking water supply. We have added 1 part of fluoride per million parts of water for dental purposes (Kanduti, Sterbenk & Artnik, 2016). Fluoride in our water supplies is not just only a result of human intervention but it can be found naturally within them. Surface water levels of fluoride were found to be an average of 0.2 parts per million parts of water (ATSDR, 2003). While well water ranges greatly from this, 0.02 to 1.5ppm (ATSDR, 2003). Due to this, we are now exposed to it on a consistent basis and it is rather hard to
Back in 1530, a German mineralogist first described the use of the mineral fluorspar in metal refining. It was useful because it allowed the pure metal to flow and be collected through metal ores. The ‘fluor’ in fluorspar came from the Latin word ‘fluere’ which means ‘to flow’ or ‘flux’- because this is what it has allowed metals to do. We now know this metal as calcium fluoride.
Fluoride Is An Artificial Substance Used To Help Teeth: As mentioned above, protecting your enamel from sugary and acidic foods is critical to maintaining a healthy smile. Fluoride can assist in strengthening and reinforcing enamel. Aside from this, it can also reverse the effects of early tooth decay. Many people believe it's an artificial substance developed to improve oral health, but it's a natural mineral, found in most water sources. You can also get toothpaste with added fluoride to reap all of the mint flavored benefits.
Although fluorine is relevant to human nutrition, excessive doses had been reported in the groundwater of more than 200 cities worldwide (Kafri et al., 1989, Ayoob and Gupta, 2006, Edmunds and Smedley, 2013). Fluoride in the groundwater originate from sedimentary, crystalline rocks to volcanic tephra and ash (Battaleb-Looie et al., 2012, Gaciri and Davies, 1993, Cordeiro et al., 2012). In volcanic towns, during the circulation of groundwater, fluoride usually escaped from devitrified lavas, dissolves within the rocks and transferred by fumaroles causing an increase in the water fluoride concentration (Oruc, 2008). People living in Turkish providence of Isparta utilise Egirdir and Golcuk Lake which is an active volcanic region. Their
It’s used for other things though like manufacturing high-voltage indicators, television tubes, wave meter tubes and lightning arrestors. It is commercially used as cryogenic refrigerant. It can create exotic compounds with fluorine in laboratories, being an inert element.
Fluorine , which has been considered as one of the 14 physiologically most essential mineral for the normal development ,growth and maintenance of the human body, does not exists in its elemental state. It exists in its simplest anionic form 'fluoride' and is found in great abundance in a large variety of minerals like fluorspar, rock phosphate,fluorite.
The two compounds assigned are the ionic compound sodium fluoride, and the molecular compound phosphorus trichloride. As Chandler (2016) suggested, sodium fluoride has many uses in the real world, such as in toothpaste, water treatment, and industrial uses. Sodium fluoride is a white powder that can be dissolved easily into water. It is recommended for most adults to have three grams per day. Small amounts are added into toothpaste and normal drinking water, which is why water is an essential way to get the required amount of fluoride. Fluoride prevents tooth decay, which is why it is used in toothpaste. On the industrial side of things, it prevents bacteria, fungus, and mold, which is why it is common in most pesticides. It is also used to make steel and aluminum in the industrial setting. According to Solvay (2013), phosphorus trichloride is used to produce many products used in agriculture. Products like surfactants, metal extractants, flame-retardants, and additives for lubricants and stabilizers in plastic. Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Atoms can pair together, which is what forms matter around us. Valence electrons are on the most outer energy level in atoms. The valence electrons are important because they are the electrons that are lost, gained, or shared. According to (Chem4Kids), on a periodic table each element is located where it is because of the atomic number and the number of protons. The rows are each called