Fluorine's name derives from fluorspar — or fluorite, CaF 2 (pictured) — which in earlier times was used as a flux to facilitate smelting. As early as the seventeenth century, fluorspar was ...

A simple chemical bond between carbon and fluorine atoms changed the world — for the better, and then for the worse. Such ...

The Fluorine Group is one of the RSC's many Interest Groups. The Interest Groups are member driven groups which exist to benefit RSC members, and the wider chemical science community, in line with the ...

Since their clinical use initiation in the 1970’s, Fluorine-18 (F-18) radiopharmaceuticals continue to play an important role in nuclear medicine. It is therefore essential to make available broad ...

‘The synthesis of fluorochemicals from fluorspar with no reliance on the complex supply chain of hydrogen fluoride is one of ...