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FLUORINE

Fluorine is a very poisonous greenish-yellow gaseous element with the symbol F belonging to the group known as the halogens. It is the most chemically reactive element (many substances ignite spontaneously in it), and for this reason it is never found uncombined. Fluorine was isolated in 1886 by Moissan by the electrolysis of a solution of potassic fluoride in hydrofluoric acid. Fluorine has also been detected in the bones, teeth, blood, milk, and urine; in plants; in volcanic sublimates;
in rocks; in coprolites and mineral phosphates and in a variety of minerals.
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