
Fluorine
A Paradoxical Element
Description
Key Features
- Describes background and contextual information regarding the history, development of understanding, and applications of this important element
- Explores the impacts of fluorine, both positive and negative, in the environment and biological systems
- Includes applied, real-world information from agencies, such as CNRS, NASA, HWS and DOH
Readership
Chemists, and scientists working in related areas: materials science, environmental science, toxicology, public health, pharmacology
Table of Contents
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 productsSection 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 lithosphereSection 3 - Fluorine, impact on mankind
10. Contributions of fluorinated molecules and products in medicine, pharmacy and biotechnologies
11. Fluorine, impact on human health
12. Fluorosis and physiological effects of fluorides on living organisms
13. Improving the quality of drinking water by defluoridationSection 4 - Conclusion
14. What future for fluorine and fluorine products?
Product details
- No. of pages: 271
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: October 6, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128129913
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128129906
About the Author
Alain Tressaud
