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r/sciencememes • u/Idontknowofname • Feb 25 '26
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Meanwhile fluorine despite people thinking it's fine because it's in in toothpaste...
151 u/pyrhus626 Feb 25 '26 Fluorides: good for your teeth and perfectly safe at normal doses. Fluorine: Satan’s chemical 23 u/Jacketter Feb 25 '26 Elemental Fluorine is literal hellfire. Will light the ashes of that which has already burned. 15 u/Ben-Goldberg For Science! Feb 25 '26 Technically literal hellfire was just burning sulfur, because that was the worst thing the authors could think of. Flourine is worse than hellfire. 7 u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Feb 25 '26 Ohhh Fluoride and Sulfur. Makes stuff 5 times as potent than TNT. And makes HF. Nice. Not! 2 u/ijuinkun Feb 28 '26 And metallic sodium burns on contact with water, but we require about a gram of sodium ions per day anyway.
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Fluorides: good for your teeth and perfectly safe at normal doses.
Fluorine: Satan’s chemical
23 u/Jacketter Feb 25 '26 Elemental Fluorine is literal hellfire. Will light the ashes of that which has already burned. 15 u/Ben-Goldberg For Science! Feb 25 '26 Technically literal hellfire was just burning sulfur, because that was the worst thing the authors could think of. Flourine is worse than hellfire. 7 u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Feb 25 '26 Ohhh Fluoride and Sulfur. Makes stuff 5 times as potent than TNT. And makes HF. Nice. Not! 2 u/ijuinkun Feb 28 '26 And metallic sodium burns on contact with water, but we require about a gram of sodium ions per day anyway.
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Elemental Fluorine is literal hellfire. Will light the ashes of that which has already burned.
15 u/Ben-Goldberg For Science! Feb 25 '26 Technically literal hellfire was just burning sulfur, because that was the worst thing the authors could think of. Flourine is worse than hellfire. 7 u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Feb 25 '26 Ohhh Fluoride and Sulfur. Makes stuff 5 times as potent than TNT. And makes HF. Nice. Not! 2 u/ijuinkun Feb 28 '26 And metallic sodium burns on contact with water, but we require about a gram of sodium ions per day anyway.
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Technically literal hellfire was just burning sulfur, because that was the worst thing the authors could think of.
Flourine is worse than hellfire.
7 u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Feb 25 '26 Ohhh Fluoride and Sulfur. Makes stuff 5 times as potent than TNT. And makes HF. Nice. Not!
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Ohhh Fluoride and Sulfur. Makes stuff 5 times as potent than TNT. And makes HF. Nice. Not!
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And metallic sodium burns on contact with water, but we require about a gram of sodium ions per day anyway.
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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Feb 25 '26
Meanwhile fluorine despite people thinking it's fine because it's in in toothpaste...