Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

but it can also render organic compounds highly toxic or pollutants. Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to ...

Fluorine compounds fall into two broad categories: organic and inorganic. Both categories have a wide range of industrial uses. Organic fluorides are compounds where fluorine is bound to carbon ...

Even though the town learned in July last year that perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and other organic fluorine compounds were present in local tap water, it held off making an announcement ...

Their findings suggest wastewater treatment plants across the US discharge tens of thousands of kilograms of fluorine-containing compounds into the environment each year, including a substantial ...

The team is also eager to extend the techniques to other challenging compounds relevant to nuclear processes, such as those ...