QUOTE : Will fluorine ever have practical applications?<br /><br />It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe that all the chemists whose attempts preceded mine gave it no more consideration.<br /><br />A scientific research is a search after truth, and it is only after discovery that the question of applicability can be usefully considered.