hydrogen fluoride
noun
: a colorless corrosive fuming usually gaseous compound HF that yields hydrofluoric acid when dissolved in water
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These fires release hazardous gases, including hydrogen fluoride and carbon monoxide, which pose serious health risks if inhaled.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Initial air quality monitoring from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that there was no public health risk posed by levels of particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride gas released during the fire.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
At the meeting Tuesday, Rick Encarnacion, director of environmental health for Monterey County, said no monitors detected levels of particulate matter — or soot — or hydrogen fluoride, a toxic gas that can come from lithium battery fires, above state health guidelines.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
Business Large energy storage facility planned for Escondido but are batteries a fire hazard?
April 11, 2023
The batteries can emit hydrogen fluoride, pure hydrogen or carbon monoxide, officials said.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
Founded in 1957, JSR is the world’s leading maker of photoresists and one of three Japanese companies, along with Shin-Etsu Chemical and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, that control the global supply of fluorinated polyimide and hydrogen fluoride.
—Yuki Furukawa and Winnie Hsu, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
Japanese export controls had covered fluorinated polyimides, which are used in OLED screens for TVs and smartphones, and photoresist and hydrogen fluoride, used for making semiconductors.
—Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 17 Mar. 2023
This device can also subject test devices to lethal gases like hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen chloride, all of which exist in Venus' atmosphere and to which future probes will be exposed.
—Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2012
As part of the process to capture HFC-23, about 1,600 pounds a year of chloroform, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and hydrogen fluoride, all hazardous air pollutants, could be emitted into neighborhoods around its Louisville facility.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Initial air quality monitoring from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined that there was no public health risk posed by levels of particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride gas released during the fire.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
At the meeting Tuesday, Rick Encarnacion, director of environmental health for Monterey County, said no monitors detected levels of particulate matter — or soot — or hydrogen fluoride, a toxic gas that can come from lithium battery fires, above state health guidelines.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
Business Large energy storage facility planned for Escondido but are batteries a fire hazard?
April 11, 2023
The batteries can emit hydrogen fluoride, pure hydrogen or carbon monoxide, officials said.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
Founded in 1957, JSR is the world’s leading maker of photoresists and one of three Japanese companies, along with Shin-Etsu Chemical and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo, that control the global supply of fluorinated polyimide and hydrogen fluoride.
—Yuki Furukawa and Winnie Hsu, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
Japanese export controls had covered fluorinated polyimides, which are used in OLED screens for TVs and smartphones, and photoresist and hydrogen fluoride, used for making semiconductors.
—Mari Yamaguchi, ajc, 17 Mar. 2023
This device can also subject test devices to lethal gases like hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen chloride, all of which exist in Venus' atmosphere and to which future probes will be exposed.
—Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2012
As part of the process to capture HFC-23, about 1,600 pounds a year of chloroform, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and hydrogen fluoride, all hazardous air pollutants, could be emitted into neighborhoods around its Louisville facility.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2021
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“Hydrogen fluoride.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydrogen%20fluoride. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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