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Uploaded by on Jul 15, 2010

We visit a fluorine expert to finally show you this incredibly reactive element in action. Our thanks to Eric Hope at the University of Leicester.

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  • weapon of choice

    fluorine canon

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    lets take all the bad science jokes and barium

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  • @elflordbob1 Barium where? I can't drive anywhere. My Carbon in the shop for quite some time. :)

  • @soundspark That's also true. But again, that's the acid and by it's burning properties it also act as a contact poison. JUst tried to warn for that salt of sodium and that acid.

  • @Riskteven Get burned by hydrofluoric acid and you may die of fluoride poisoning too.

  • I am confused you say teeth can be dissolved very easily with acid, but in your sulfuric acid video the killer was caught because they found the teeth while the rest of the body was dissolved in H2SO4.

  • @AugustinusSextus I meant toxic rather than the burning/eating property. Ofcourse the acid is more dangerous but rather because it disolves everything at once. The salt sodium flouride is not eating or burning, but it is still extremely toxic, drink it and you will die but slowly and surely.

  • @Riskteven hydrofluoric acid (EU: T+) is more toxic than sodium fluoride (EU: T) not vice versa, or do you mean something else?

  • Anyone get the idea that with a tank of fluorine and a tube you have the same effects as a lightsaber?

  • @dean10007 Yet Nuclear Reactions, theories and the whole topic about Nuclear power was discovered and explained in terms of chemistry. It's only in recent times that Physics are able to explain these phenomena with relative calculations.

  • flourine <3

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