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ACS News Service Weekly PressPac: October 23, 2019
Primer on hydrogen fluoride – a compound with a starring role in trade tensions in Asia
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Perhaps best known to Breaking Bad viewers as a dangerous substance, hydrogen fluoride is also useful in a variety of industrial applications, such as the production of non-stick surfaces, refrigerants and pharmaceuticals. If you want to know more about the chemistry of hydrogen fluoride, a compound often mentioned in news stories about trade tensions in Asia, watch this video: