What happens when you mix Fluorine and Water?

Fluorine burns water!

Fluorine is so greedy for electrons that it even rips water apart, grabbing the hydrogen and setting the oxygen free.

The result

What it makes
Hydrogen fluoride + oxygen gas
Equation
2F₂ + 2H₂O → 4HF + O₂
When it happens
At room temperature

Fun fact from Fizzy: Almost nothing else can make water give up its oxygen like this!

🥽 Fluorine is extremely dangerous. Only a few expert labs ever use it.

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