Facts about the Discovery and History of the Fluorine Element
First described in 1529 by Georigius Agricola for its use as a flux. Fluorine was discovered by Joseph Henri Moissan in 1886. Moissan won the 1906 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Occurrence the Fluorine Element
Obtained from the mineral fluorite
Associated Uses of Fluorine
Production of uranium,Air conditioning,Refrigeration,Insecticide,Toothpaste,Added to municipal water supplies,Teflon
Isotopes of the Element Fluorine with a Known Natural Abundance
All Known Isotopes of the Element Fluorine
IMPORTANCE OF PROPERTİES:
Flourine is important and used+ mostly in Nuclear Power Indusry.İt is also important in refrigiration,plastics and dental stuff like preventing tooth decay. Fluorine is also used in the synthesis of organic fluorine compounds.Fluorine is used in the manufacture of Freon (i.e. dichlorodifluoromethane, CCl2F2) which is used as a refrigerant.Fluorine is used in the manufacture of uranium hexafluoride which is required for the separation of the isotopes of uranium in centrifuges.
Flourine is also important because it is the most reactive material in the world,and with this it is very useful in some ways and it is very hard to keep too...
Producing Flourine:
Fluorine is found naturally in many minerals, such as fluorspar (a.k.a. fluorite).
There is no other element that can be used to oxidize F- to F2, because fluorine itself is the most strongly oxidizing of all elements.
Only an anode can be made more oxidizing, by applying a positive voltage greater than 2.87 V.
Fluorine is produced by electrolyzing a molten mixture (75oC) of KF and HF at a carbon anode.
When enviromentally thinking flourine is a dangerous material.It is very toxic and it is used in uranium,the source of many bombs.
Extra Information:
- Fluorine reacts explosively with hydrogen even in the dark and at low temperature.
- Fluorine reacts violently with water forming hydrogen fluoride, and liberates oxygen which is highly charged with ozone.
2 F2 + 2 H2O ==> 4 HF + O2
- Fluorine also reacts with sulphur, selenium, and tellurium, which melt and ignite in the gas, forming halides.
- Fluorine is a powerful oxidising agent. For example, when fluorine is bubbles through a solution of potassium chlorate this is oxidised to potassium perchlorate.
F2 + 2 KClO3 + H2O ==> 2 HF + KClO4
- Fluorine does not react directly with oxygen, or nitrogen, and combines with chlorine, only on heating, forming the gaseous products chlorine fluoride, and chlorine trifluoride.
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Fluorine readily combines with bromine, and iodine, forming colourless liquids BrF3 and IF5.
