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Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST.
May I say that that is wildly dangerous work. Calorimetry in fluorine compounds? Explosive, exothermic and extremely poisonous.
You're trying to make it Not go bang most of the time, not this lady.
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https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride
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#Chemistry #BlackHistory #Science #Fluorine #SpaceHistory
www.science.orgThings I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
To quote the good Dr. Lowe on flourines: "Sand won't save you this time."