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.