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unusual facts about hydrogen fluoride



Potassium bifluoride

The salt was prepared by Edmond Frémy who decomposed it to generate, for the first time, hydrogen fluoride.

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

They rejected the assumption that such compounds would be toxic, believing that the stability of the carbon–fluorine bond would be sufficient to prevent the release of hydrogen fluoride or other potential breakdown products.


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