“One can indeed make various hypotheses on the nature of the liberated gas, the simplest would be that we are in the presence of fluorine”. Moissan was to be awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

In order to prepare the fluoride of platinum, a bundle of wires of the metal is introduced into a thick platinum or fluor-spar tube, through which a current of fluorine gas from the electrolysis ...

“Fluorine gas reacts with most organic and inorganic substances; with metals, it forms fluorides and with water, it forms ...