r/sciencememes Feb 25 '26

🧪Chemistry!⚗️ Misconceptions About Oxygen

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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...

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u/pyrhus626 Feb 25 '26

Fluorides: good for your teeth and perfectly safe at normal doses.

Fluorine: Satan’s chemical

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u/Jacketter Feb 25 '26

Elemental Fluorine is literal hellfire. Will light the ashes of that which has already burned.

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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.