It also provides you with world news and facts, which lead me to sprinkle my uncle's phone with fluoride flecks while leaning in to read them.
Also, because they use a liquid fluoride salt for a coolant, there is no high-pressure water to deal with.
Getting countries to agree to such intrusive measures, he says, would be very difficult.The sixth shortlisted design, the molten salt reactor (MSR), works by dissolving nuclear fuel in a fluoride solution, which acts as both the fuel and the coolant in the reactor core.
Quantities of sewage are poured into it daily, 95% of which is untreated, and it is also a depository for industrial effluents, chemicals from farm runoffs and arsenic and fluoride contamination.
The oxide (which comes from an ore called coltan) is converted to a fluoride using hydrofluoric acid, and the fluoride is then reduced with liquid sodium.
Unlike osmosis, it consumes no energy, and every drop of incoming water can be used for drinking.The first country Mr McGovern has in his sights is Mexico, the second-biggest consumer of bottled water in the world because of the high incidence of arsenic, fluoride and pathogens in the water.
He was mocked for maintaining that fluoride was not merely a useful chemical, but a nutrient essential to the diet.
The fuel used in a liquid-fuel reactor is liquid fluoride laced with thorium.
Twice a day humans do battle, attacking it with bristles, abrasives, flossers, surfactants, antibacterials, fluoride and alcohol to little avail.
Last and perhaps most surprising of all, chocolate may fight tooth decay more effectively than fluoride.
But a better way is to turn the element into its fluoride, mix that with fluorides of beryllium and lithium to bring its melting-point down from 1,110ºC to a more tractable 360ºC, and melt the mixture.
