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by pjc50 1211 days ago
"The dose makes the poison"; biology is full of substances that can keep you alive in small quantities and kill you in large ones.
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It's not even the dose here, it's the reactivity of the chemical bonds. Sodium fluoride (alkali-halogen) bonds are a lot more stable than halogen-halogen bonds. And a Chlorine Trifluoride bond? Woah.