There is an element so reactive that it was one of the last to be isolated, and chemists were injured or even killed trying to obtain it. 

Yet once tamed, it became essential to everything from aluminium production and nuclear technology to medicine, batteries, and nonstick coatings. 

Its compounds have also been at the center of major debates over public health and environmental contamination.

Learn more about the extraordinary element fluorine on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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