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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!lead.aichem.arizona.edu!tip
  2. From: tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics
  4. Subject: Re: Mysterious accelerant ???
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.013944.21955@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 01:39:44 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan21.172653.29937@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <C18In2.88E@world.std.com> <1993Jan22.205340.9338@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
  8. Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
  9. Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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  12. In article <1993Jan22.205340.9338@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
  13.  
  14. >It's the LF2 that's nasty--fluorine reacts with *anything.*  Utterly
  15. >impossible to store for more than a few minutes.  You'd have to keep it in the
  16. >form of HF, which is marginally more manageable, then condense and electrolyze
  17. >right before adding the lithium.  
  18.  
  19. Commercial cylinders of fluorine gas can be purchased from AirCo.
  20. I don't know what the cylinder is made of.
  21.