"Fluorine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... percent; magnesium 2.2 percent. Besides these which are most important there is about 0.2 percent of hydrogen and the same amount of carbon. Then there is a little phosphorus, a little sulphur, a little fluorine, and small amounts of all of the rest of the different ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills
... the varieties of Fluorides, or combinations of fluorine and the metals. These include the fluoride of calcium, of which the most familiar variety to Englishmen is that known as Derbyshire spar, of which many useful articles are manufactured in this country. Ladies particularly will halt with interest before the case marked 58 A, where the fluorides, ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold
... this column the following signs are used: F. Fluorine; Li. Lithia; W. Loss on igniting the mineral, in ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... than this, we consume and appropriate certain incidental elements, which find their place and use in the healthy system. Iron floats in our blood, sulphur lies hidden in the hair and nails, phosphorus scintillates unseen in the brain, lime compacts our bones, and fluorine sets the enamelled edges of our teeth. At least one-third of all the known chemical elements exist in some part of the human economy, and are taken into the stomach hidden in our various articles of food. This would seem enough for Nature's requirements. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... 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 |
