Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Plainly Difficult"
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@alexturnbackthearmy1907 nobody uses HF as rocket fuel or, more accurately, as an oxidizer. Just as nobody uses chlorine trifluoride for a rocket oxidizer, which would be incredibly efficient, save for it turning rockets and their oxidizer storage facilities into toxic bombs from hell. The latter being so nasty, even the Nazis left it alone.
But, is in use in cleaning nuclear reactors, as it dissolves uranium into uranium hexafluoride, which is the input feed in nuclear fuel processing.
HF remains in use in etching glass though, as well as in industrial paint strippers and other highly specialized industrial chemicals and remains highly hazardous. And it's a byproduct of Halon type fire extinguisher usage after the agent is superheated in a fire. Major incidents in the latter were in Afghanistan, where several mine resistant vehicles were attacked by RPG directly into their fire suppression system, resulting in significant crew losses and a major medical debacle on the ground.
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