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Owing to its extreme reactivity, elemental fluorine was not isolated until many years after the characterization of fluorite. Progress in isolating elemental fluorine was slowed because it could be prepared only electrolytically and even then under stringent conditions, since the gas attacks many materials.

In 1886, the isolation of elemental fluorine was reported by Henri Moissan after almost 74 years of effort by other chemists

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