Water cousins: Fluorine and Fluoride

Abstract: ( 5 pp.) One of the "stories" that was associated with the Cold War, long ago and far away, was that those sneaky Communists were going to put fluoride in the water and destroy us all. I thought the issue had collapsed with the Berlin wall, but the beat goes on -this time we are also being told of the seventeenth element in the earth's crust fluorine. This discussion will look at some of the positives and negatives of those "fluoro-cousins." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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Subcatagory: General & Public Health Issues

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