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Show On the Way: More Powerful Batteries Fluorinated carbon-it's carbon-it's a material you'll probably pro-bably be hearing lots more of in the years ahead if you buy batteries, bat-teries, say scientists, as manufacturers scramble to produce units offering high energy density, greater power, more compact size and longer life five years minimum. Fluorinated carbon, they say, looms large as one of the key ingredients in-gredients for the cathode in lithium batteries. Recently, lithium-fluorinated lithium-fluorinated carbon batteries bat-teries have been used to power the computer-age electronic circuits in cameras circuits that advance the film, set the aperature and operate the flash. According to the experts ex-perts at Allied Corporation's Corpora-tion's Chemical unit, the world's largest fluorine producer and a potential major supplier of this high value-added specialty product, fluorinated carbon can also be used in lubrication, lubrica-tion, where its unique combination of properties proper-ties makes this material an outstanding product to improve key performance perfor-mance criteria. |