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Fluorine
A Paradoxical Element
Progress in Fluorine Science Series, Vol. 5
Author: Tressaud Alain
Language: Anglais
Subject for Fluorine:
425 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Fluorine: A Paradoxical Element deals with the links - sometimes complex - between fluorine, humanity, and the environment. This unique resource is divided into three main sections: i) the history of the element Fluorine and stages of the development of fluorinated products
Section 1 - History and milestones of fluorine and fluorinated products 1. The true nature of the imperial murrhina through a critical lecture of Pliny’s “Naturalis Historia 2. Uses of fluorinated minerals through centuries 3. Georgius Agricola, a humanist mineralogist and creator of the word "fluoride" 4. In search of the missing halogen, from the Renaissance to the end of XIXth century 5. The isolation of fluorine on June 1886 by a pharmacist and chemist: Henri Moissan 6. Developmental milestones of fluorinated products
Section 2 - Presence of fluorine and fluorinated compounds in our environment 7. Genesis and cosmo-chemistry of fluorine 8. Fluorine and our atmosphere 9. Fluorine and the lithosphere
Section 3 - Fluorine, impact on mankind 10. Contributions of fluorinated molecules and products in medicine, pharmacy and biotechnologies 11. Fluorine, inpact on human health 12. Fluorosis and physiological effects of fluorides on living organisms 13. Improving the quality of drinking water by defluoridation
Section 4 - Conclusion 14. What future for fluorine and fluorine products?
Chemists, and scientists working in related areas: materials science, environmental science, toxicology, public health, pharmacology