potassium fluoride
Americannoun
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The splintered fluorine atoms, the researchers report, are safely sequestered by reacting them with potassium hydride in solution to form potassium fluoride, a nontoxic ingredient in toothpaste.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024
In 2013, a team of researchers led by Sanford showed9 how to make such bonds with a safer potassium fluoride salt using a copper catalyst.
From Nature • Sep. 5, 2016
A second group of 45 rats, living on the same diet, had their teeth bathed in a weak mixture of potassium fluoride in water once a day.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amount of hydrofluoric acid employed in these earlier experiments was about fifteen grms., about six grms. of hydrogen potassium fluoride, HF.KF, being added in order to render it a conductor.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
It was first isolated by H. Moissan in 1886 by the electrolysis of pure anhydrous hydrofluoric acid containing dissolved potassium fluoride.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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