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0 pointsggm5y ago0 comments

At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.

Gentle and Forgiving nature...

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HarryHirsch5y ago

The inimitable Martin Poliakoff demonstrates it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWp45Eewtw

ebg135y ago

"It was much more exciting than I thought" is a great opening line.

ggmOP5y ago

Great communication

fuzzfactor5y ago

We used to do this under pressure in heavy-walled alloy cylinders being irradiated with megawatts of microwave energy behind a blast shell facing into the deep woods at the far end of the specialty fluorochemical research plant.

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