We visit a fluorine expert to finally show you this incredibly reactive element in action. Our thanks to Eric Hope at the University of Leicester. More links in description below ↓↓↓...
========== It was much more exciting than I thought.
You see the flames.Our first video of fluorine was a bit disappointing.
There wasn’t any, justa few bits of glassware and some funny stories.
So at the moment I’m inthe office of Professor Eric Hope who is one
of the Country’s specialists influorine chemistry. He knows how to handle
this terrific element safely. Ihave no idea what to do. I’m quite excited
to see what happens.One of the things you said in that original
video was, on Youtube, wasthat fluorine was one of the few elements
that you hadn’t seen so Ithought there are actually relatively few
chemists who have seenfluorine. So what I want to do is produce
and show you elementalfluorine. Fluorine is slowly released; you
see the pressure slowly goingup.The reason ...