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I think they meant well behaved in the sense that it isn't highly reactive - e.g. doesn't explode in contact with air. Not so much what it does to humans. We'r
by chaxor 4y ago
I think they meant well behaved in the sense that it isn't highly reactive - e.g. doesn't explode in contact with air. Not so much what it does to humans.
We're talking about fluorine chemistry here, so things get kind of extreme.
- bell-cot 4y ago"Extreme" is when you have elemental fluorine. Vs. nice, stable fluorine compounds & salts. This situation involves only the latter.
- sbierwagen 4y agoWell that's the problem, right? The more stable the substance you're trying to degrade, the more intense the conditions or chemicals you need. Teflon is inert as a rock, so if you for some reason needed to dissolve it in acid then you have to reach deep into the realm of impracticality and pull out demonic reagents like chlorine trifluoride or trihydridoboron.