Sentence examples for were fluorinated from inspiring English sources
verb
To introduce fluorine into a compound.
Then, the CxN compounds were fluorinated with fluorine gas at room temperature giving rise to CxNFz.
Between 7% and 72% of total membrane-associated sialosides were fluorinated, depending on the precursor used and the cell type.
Accordion-like graphites prepared by exfoliation of a low temperature graphite fluoride were fluorinated using F2 gas at various temperatures.
Triuranium octoxide (U3O8) and stable surrogate oxides of selected fission product species representative of a Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) matrix typical of Light Water Reactor (LWR) service were fluorinated using an alternate, solid-phase fluorinating agent, XeF2.
Multilayer carbonaceous nanomaterial has been synthesized using a two-step process: carbon nanodiscs/nanocones were fluorinated using either the direct reaction with pure F2 gas or the thermal decomposition of solid fluorinating agent (TbF4).
Capillaries were fluorinated by pumping 1 100 (v/v) trichloro(1H,1 H-perfluorooctylrooctyl)silane in anhydrous hexadecane through them.
The surfaces are fluorinated by fluorine containing groups, namely CF, CF2, and CF3, with F concentrations of about 20%.
In this context, a commercial activated carbon, in an extruded form, was fluorinated under mild conditions (pure fluorine gas at room temperature) in order to decrease its hydrophilic character and to preserve its microporosity.
A number of factors make them extremely inert: the high strength of the C F bond, the reinforcement of the backbone C C bonds when the carbons are fluorinated, the dense packing of the fluorine atoms around the backbone, and the repulsion exercised by the densely electron-coated fluorine on their environment.
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.
This possibility to modify or to modulate the pharmacological profile of a molecule by inserting fluorine atoms clearly explains why bioorganic and medicinal chemistry of fluorine has become so important, and why many drugs and pesticides are fluorinated compounds.
