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Sir Humphry Davy was arguably Britain's leading chemist of the early 19th century. He was particularly noted for applying electrolysis to break down compounds into their component forms and in this way isolated, for the first time, samples of sodium, potassium and other reactive elements.
In 1886, French chemist Henri Moissan, later a Nobel Prize winner, succeeded in making elemental fluorine by electrolyzing a mixture of potassium fluoride and hydrogen fluoride. Large-scale production and use of fluorine began during World War 2 as part of the Manhattan Project .
Only in 1886 did French chemist Henri Moissan isolate elemental fluorine using low-temperature electrolysis, a process still employed for modern production. Industrial production of fluorine gas for uranium enrichment, its largest application, began during the Manhattan Project in World War II.
25 Σεπ 2024 · The isolation of fluorine was for a long time one of the chief unsolved problems in inorganic chemistry, and it was not until 1886 that the French chemist Henri Moissan prepared the element by electrolyzing a solution of potassium hydrogen fluoride in hydrogen fluoride.
22 Αυγ 2018 · History. Early chemists tried for years to isolate the element from various fluorides. It wasn't until 1986 that German chemist Karl O. Christie successfully synthesized fluorine, and...
Moissan is credited with over three hundred publications, his greatest works being Le Four Électrique (The electric-arc furnace) (1897), Le Fluor et ses Composés (Fluorine and its compounds) (1900) and Traité de Chimie Minerale (Treatise on inorganic chemistry) (five volumes 1904-1906).
These brave scientists were battling to be the first to isolate elemental fluorine (F 2) from its various compounds, using electrolysis. However, it was Nicklès' countrymen, Henri Moissan, who succeeded in 1886.
