Fluorine finally found in nature

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Mystery of nasty niff from ‘fetid fluorite’ minerals is solved - it’s all down to the fluorine it releases

Your textbooks and teachers probably told you that elemental fluorine, F2, is not found in nature. But now traces of it have been found in calcium fluoride minerals by German chemists, who suggest that it’s produced by uranium also found in the rock.

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