• Question: who would win in a fight, carbon or flourine?

    Asked by nerd to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sally Fenton

      Sally Fenton answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Flourine…because it is the most chemically reactive element and it is poisonous! it sounds stronger too. However…there is way more carbon in the universe than flourine so it depends on numbers…I think a lot of carbon could probably take flourine down. 😉

    • Photo: Peter Styring

      Peter Styring answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Definitely fluorine. Carbon is inert and unreactive (a bit like an England goalkeeper) while fluorine is very reactive and toxic. No contest, 1-0 to the halogen!

    • Photo: Sian Lawson

      Sian Lawson answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Carbon has more staying power – it’s not as reactive but playing the long game. Team Carbon!

    • Photo: Rebecca Randell

      Rebecca Randell answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I’m going to place my bets on carbon!! Who do you think would win?

    • Photo: Sally Barber

      Sally Barber answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I can’t remember much about chemical elements from high school chemistry so I just did a quick internet search. It seems like they should work together rather than fight… appartently the carbon-fluorine bond is the strongest in organic chemistry so they together they have a huge bond dissociation energy. Also carbon-tetrafluoride is a gas used in refrigerator systems so can be really useful to us.

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