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Researchers have detected fluorine -- an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride -- in a galaxy so far away that its light has taken over 12 billion years to reach us, a discovery that is ...
Chemist Andrea Sella tells the story of how the feared element ended up giving us better teeth, mood and health. Many chemists have lost their lives trying to isolate the periodic table’s most ...
With two Portland glassmakers suspending use of the carcinogens cadmium, chromium and, in the case of one, arsenic this week, Gov. Kate Brown announced on Monday: “These steps address the immediate ...
Chemist Andrea Sella tells the story of how the feared element ended up giving us better teeth, mood and health. Show more Many chemists have lost their lives trying to isolate the periodic table's ...
Researchers have discovered a new organic reaction that selectively converts only a specific carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond in perfluorinated compounds to other functional groups. This is expected to lead ...
Fluorine is the most chemically reactive element on the periodic table. Only one isotope of fluorine occurs naturally. Researchers discovered a new isotope with four neutrons removed from the proton ...
SINCE the publication by M. Moissan of his celebrated paper in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique for December 1887, describing the manner in which he had succeeded in isolating this remarkable ...