Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee.
Moissan in 1906
Moissan's 1892 observation of the color of fluorine gas (2), compared to air (1) and chlorine (3)
Moissan attempting to create synthetic diamonds using an electric arc furnace
Fluorine is a chemical element; it has symbol F and atomic number 9. It is the lightest halogen and exists at standard conditions as a highly toxic, pale yellow diatomic gas. Fluorine is extremely reactive, as it reacts with all other elements except for the light inert gases.
Liquid fluorine (F2 at extremely low temperature)
Fluorite: Pink globular mass with crystal facets
Fluorapatite: Long, prismatic crystal, dull in lustre, protruding, at an angle, from matrix of aggregate-like rock
Cryolite: A parallelogram-shaped outline with diatomic molecules arranged in two layers