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Hydrogen fluoride (HF) is the largest volume synthetic fluorine compound manufactured in America, and virtually all of the myriad fluorine products that surround us have their origins in HF. In 1991, U.S. domestic sales of fluorochemicals approached $3 billion. Annual production of HF throughout the world is close to one million tons, and it is manufactured almost exclusively by interaction of refined, or acid grade, fluorspar (CaF2) with sulfuric acid. Attempts to manufacture HF from “phosphate rock” [fluorapatite, 3Ca3(PO4)2*CaF2] have largely been shelved as uneconomic. Fortunately, in view of the increasing demand for fluorine-containing products, known reserves of fluorspar are increasing.
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Du Boisson, R.A. (1994). The Fluorochemical Industry. In: Banks, R.E., Smart, B.E., Tatlow, J.C. (eds) Organofluorine Chemistry. Topics in Applied Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1202-2_28
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