• Question: What would happen if you combined Florine with the most reactive metal?

    Asked by Yash The [A] Star to Lisa, Kate on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Well Lithium Fluoride is one such combination. It is a salt like crystalline solid that we use in the cameras that collect the x-ray images at the synchrotrons (amongst other things)….. but if we just move a few rows down the periodic table to Sodium and Chlorine we get salt – and we can’t survive without that.

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Have a look at this reaction between flourine and ceasium

      Quite, beautiful 🙂

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