The purpose of this review is to describe various geological and chemical factors that are controlling the fluoride concentration in soil, rocks, water, air, plants, animals and food stuffs. Further to discuss well established method that is used as the standard methods of analysis. Rock, Soil, Water, air, plants, animals, foodstuffs all contain fluoride in widely varied concentration. Industri...

Fluorides, hydrogen fluoride, and fluorine have been identified in at least 188 of the 1,636 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (HazDat 2003). However, the number of sites evaluated for fluorides, hydrogen fluoride, and fluorine is not known. The frequency of these sites can be seen in Figure 6-1. Of these sites, all are located...