Fluorine is the most reactive element of all. Most chemists will never use, or even see it. ... Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science. Dr. Josh Bloom, the Director of Chemical and ...

In the 1930s, the chemical industry created surfactant compounds with a unique ability to repel both grease and water, because their carbon chains were swaddled in fluorine atoms.

Fluoride the chemical: Although commonly used, no chemical can correctly be called "fluoride"; it is only half of a name – an abbreviation for a compound that contains a fluoride ion. Unlike fluorine, ...

New eco-friendly ferroelectric plastic ditches forever chemicals and paves way for safer, smarter electronics of the future.

Plenty of labs and chemical processing plants have been rocked by hydrogen and fluorine explosions. (In one case, fluorine started eating into its own containment canister, which created hydrogen ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an environmentally safer type of plastic that can be used for ...

The accumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, is a growing cause of concern. Their strong carbon–fluorine bonds give these compounds excellent chemical and thermal ...

Fluorine (atomic number 9), and chlorine (atomic number 17) directly below, are both highly reactive gases, for example. But upon closer inspection, the heavier elements don’t follow this trend at all ...