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- From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
- Subject: Re: Mysterious accelerant ???
- Message-ID: <C1ACCJ.B4F@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan21.172653.29937@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <C18In2.88E@world.std.com> <1993Jan22.205340.9338@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan23.013944.21955@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:31:31 GMT
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- tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan22.205340.9338@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
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- >>It's the LF2 that's nasty--fluorine reacts with *anything.* Utterly
- >>impossible to store for more than a few minutes. You'd have to keep it in the
- >>form of HF, which is marginally more manageable, then condense and electrolyze
- >>right before adding the lithium.
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- >Commercial cylinders of fluorine gas can be purchased from AirCo.
- >I don't know what the cylinder is made of.
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- Steel or copper probably. Iron and copper react with fluorine the same as
- aluminum does with air. It reacts immediately, but a layer of fluoride
- (oxide) forms that protects it from further reaction.
-
- -Mike
-