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Use of Hydrogen Fluoride
4/7/2005
name Elsa
status student
grade 9-12
location NM
Question - What is the use of hydrogen fluoride?
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Hydrogen fluoride has many industrial uses -- far too many to list here.
It is an intermediate in products ranging from "DuPont's Teflon (TM)", "Freons", glass
etching to name just a few. If you do a "Google" search on the term: "uses
hydrogen fluoride" you can find a wealth of info that you can sort,
depending upon your requirements.
Vince Calder
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