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 research team led by Prof. Kang Yanbiao from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese ...

The Interstate Technology Regulatory Council, a program of the nonprofit Environmental Research Institute of the States, ...

A simple chemical bond between carbon and fluorine atoms changed the world — for the better, and then for the worse. Such bonds lie at the heart of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a ...

Congratulations to the past recipients of the ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of the chemistry of fluorine.

Yes. Water in the Colorado Springs region has so much naturally occurring fluoride that the city must dilute it with water from other sources.

Batteries power almost everything today, from smartphones to electric cars. But the current batteries come with a hidden cost ...

Lin Jiang, R&D staff scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific, reports on a study of oxyfluoride disordered rock-salt (DRX) ...