"Fluorine" Quotes from Famous Books
... bombs were not heavy charges; their main purposes was to make a flare bright enough to be seen for thousands of miles in space. Fluorine and magnesium made plenty of ... — The Man Who Hated Mars • Gordon Randall Garrett
... glass—apparently decomposing, throwing out filmy threads of clear glass and bubbles of glass which break, liberating a gas (fluorine?) which, attacking the white-hot platinum, causes rings of color to appear round the specimen. I have now been using the apparatus for nearly a month, and in its earliest days it led me right in the diagnosis ... — Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various |