Starting at $34.50

16"x 16" or 20"x 20"
Polyester, Cotton, or Outdoor Fabric
Zipper or Zipperless

Choose your color:

Fluorine

This pillow makes a perfect gift for your teen, science lover, best friend, child, and more! Choose from many different colors, two different sizes, 3 different fabrics, and if you'd like a zipper or not.

Fluorine is the lightest halogen and exists at standard conditions as a highly toxic, pale yellow diatomic gas. As the most electronegative element, it is extremely reactive, as it reacts with all other elements, except for argon, neon, and helium. Fluorite, the primary mineral source of fluorine which gave the element its name, was first described in 1529; as it was added to metal ores to lower their melting points for smelting, the Latin verb fluo meaning "flow" gave the mineral its name. Owing to the expense of refining pure fluorine, most commercial applications use fluorine compounds, with about half of mined fluorite used in steelmaking. The rest of the fluorite is converted into corrosive hydrogen fluoride en route to various organic fluorides, or into cryolite, which plays a key role in aluminium refining. Fluorine has no known metabolic role in mammals; a few plants and sea sponges synthesize organofluorine poisons (most often monofluoroacetates) that help deter predation.

Shop other non-metals: