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fluorine
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The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9.
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Uranium tetrafluoride can also be fluorinated at 350° C (660° F) with fluorine gas to volatile uranium hexafluoride (UF6), which is fractionally distilled to produce high-purity feedstock for isotopic enrichment.
He nursed his congregation through the famine that followed the eruption when three-quarters of Iceland's sheep died after ingesting the fluorine that poured out of the volcano.
Most attempts to produce low-dielectric insulators have relied on a form of CVD that spikes the insulating layer with small quantities of fluorine.
One of the gases the volcano threw up was fluorine, which fell quickly back to earth as hydrofluoric acid.
And instead of employing fluorine, it relies on a novel mixture of methyl-silane gas and hydrogen peroxide.
For example, substituting two of the chlorine atoms on chloroform (CHCl3) with fluorine atoms produces chlorodifluoromethane (CHClF2).
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The body's chief source of energy is glucose, and it is possible to get a good idea of local energy consumption by injecting somebody with a form of glucose that contains fluorine-18, another positron emitter.
For example, a 9α-fluorine atom enhances the glucocorticoid activity of cortisol about 10-fold but its salt-retaining activity about 50-fold.
On the other hand, unsaturation at C1 increases glucocorticoid, but not mineralocorticoid, activity, and 6α-fluorine or methyl, and 16-methyl or hydroxyl, groups (and especially 16α,17α-acetonides i 16α,17α-acetonides i from 16α,17α-dihydroxy compounds and acetone) enhance anti-inflammatory activity while reducing salt activity.e
Another hydrogen-bonded solid is hydrogen fluoride (HF), in which the hydrogen atom (proton) links pairs of fluorines.
Water molecules labeled with oxygen-15 are used to measure amount of blood flow, and deoxyglucose molecules labeled with fluorine-18 are used to measure glucose utilization.
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