Ceramic Materials Database

Go to Oxides Materials Articles Glossary
CeramicMaterials.Info Database

---

New version of this page available at digitalfire.com: Click here to go now

FLUORINE

Miscellaneous

• Family: None
• Region: None
• Mined At: Unspecified
• Raw Mineral: Yes
• Generic: No

Notes

(Richard Willis)

Element, with the symbol F and atomic weight of 18.99
Most reactive of the non-metallics. Very strong flux — from Latin ‘fluor or flor’ meaning flowing; and highly venomous as a solid, and toxic as a gas, like chlorine, particularly in cryolite, fluorite, and phosphate rock. Commonly used forms are fluorite, CaF₂, and cryolite, 3NaF, AlF₃

Authors

• Richard Willis (Owner)

XML

Available on new site, see link above

---

Much more information with complete interlinking to many related databases can be found by logging into the www.ceramicmaterials.info database Copyright 2003 http://digitalfire.com, All Rights Reserved Please support http://ceramicmaterials.info to improve this library

INSIGHT is ceramic chemistry calculation software that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and talks to this web site.