A 21-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department with bleeding skin burns. He had been exposed to 70% hydrofluoric acid (HF) through his nitrile hand gloves during an etching glass procedure at work. He had painful lesions, which included bleeding skin abrasions due to seconddegree burns on the first and second fingertips on the right hand, and white spots on the left first finger, w...

Hexametallic chromium(III) chains can act as fluoride donor ligands to lanthanide ions giving {(Cr(6))Ln(x)}(n) complexes; preliminary spectroscopic studies are reported.

A series of novel phenothiazine derivatives with N–H have been synthesized, and those materials were suitable for colourimetric detection fluoride ions electrochromism.

Water quality directly influences individual and public health. Monitoring of water supplies and their sanitation is of paramount importance. The present study aimed to determine the concentrations of fluoride, chlorine, potassium, sodium, and trihalomethanes in the drinking water of five major universities in Iran. This descriptive study was conducted during January 2016-2017. In total, 60 sam...

The fluoride ion has a well-established beneficial role in dentistry in protecting the teeth from assault by caries. It is known to contribute to the dynamic mineralisation process of the natural tooth mineral, and also to become incorporated with the mineral phase, forming a thin layer of fluorapatite. This is more resistant to acid attack than the native hydroxyapatite, hence protects the too...

BACKGROUND Fluoride contamination of groundwater, both anthropogenic and natural, is a major problem worldwide and hence its removal attracted much attention to have clean aquatic systems. In the present work, removal of fluoride ions from drinking water tested using synthesized γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles. METHODS Nanoparticles were synthesized in co-precipitation method. The prepared particles we...

We performed batch dissolution experiments on different sized granite and biotite in pure water, in order to better understand the source and geochemical behavior of fluoride in groundwater. Very high concentrations of fluoride (up to 6–10 mg/l) were observed from granite leaching. Correlations between leached ions suggest that fluoride possibly originates from dissolution of biotite. After ~50...

Natural organic matter (NOM) is a major water constituent that affects the performance of drinking water treatment processes and the quality of drinking water. Besides, several studies have shown that NOM can be adsorbed on the surface of oxides being thereby able to compete with other ions. The overall goal of this study was essentially to investigate the competitive adsorption between fluorid...

An explicit water molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is presented of a solution modeling aliphatic 6,6-ionene oligocations mixed with low-molecular-weight electrolytes. In all cases, the co-ions were sodium cations and the counterions were fluoride, chloride, bromide, or iodide anions. The simple point charge/extended (SPC/E) model was used to describe water. The results of the simulation at T ...