Show A fury of the chemical world three things were sought by the ancient alchemist the sto nethe elixir of life and the universal solvent efio last of these though long known to modern chemistry has just been generated but calp t be retained bac and des trots everything this fury of the chemical world says JV mat aeu williams is the element flourine it exists peacefully in company with calcium in flour apar find also in a few other com pounds but when insolate as it recently has been by Mois Bau is a rabid gas thit noth in can resist it combines with some I 1 ar if ahby are alfready all ready combined with ebbe other non metallic ele ment it tears them from it and takes them tao itself in uniting with sodium um calcium and aluminium the me itis eco me heated aeu to red bloem by the devor of iti iron 6 ll 11 i nga slightly warded n t 0 ant when exposed io it manganese the aade E ven the noble metals which even at a melting beat p loudly resist the of oxygen succumb to phe aicala juren at moderate temperatures ginn is at orice and water by contact with this glass which coin bining its byhro gen at the same moment forms the acrid glass dissolving oric acid I 1 and liberates izone |