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Hailey93
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What molecular compound is formed by Phosphorus and Fluorine?

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Posted by Hailey93 on Wednesday March 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM and tagged with compund, fluorine, formula, molecular, phosphorus, phosphorus trifluoride, science.

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  1. kjcdb8er
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    Phosphorus and fluorine together form phosphorus trifluoride, or PF3.

    PF3 has trigonal bipyramidal molecular geometry and can be polar or nonpolar depending on the binding locations of the flourine atoms. And it's toxic, similar in effect to carbon monoxide.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus_trifluoride

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    Posted by kjcdb8er on Friday June 5, 2009 at 1:52 PM