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FLUORINE

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Fluorine (F2) is an electron-attaching diatomic molecule with 18 electrons. It has electronic polarizability of 1.54 × 10−40 F m2, ionization potential of 15.697 eV, bond dissociation energy of 1.64 eV, and electron affinity of 3.08 eV. The lowest excitation level is 3.16 eV (Hayashi and Nimura, 1983).

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