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Lithium fluoride Usage And Synthesis

     Lithium Fluoride (LiF) has the lowest refractive index of all common infrared materials.  It possesses the highest UV transmission of any material.  Lithium fluoride can be applied in rechargeable Li batteries, in radiation dosimeter for personnel monitoring as well as radiation research, as an optical material, as a heat sink material, to produce ceramics, and to dissolve fluid fuel for molten salt reactors.

Product Name: Lithium fluoride
Synonyms: um 99.99%Lithium fluoride;LITHIUM FLUORIDELITHIUM FLUORIDELITHIUM FLUORIDELITHIUM FLUORIDE;Fluorolithium;Lithium fluoride (Li3F3);Lithium fluoride (LiF);Lithium fluorure;Lithium monofluoride;Lithiumfluorid
CAS: 7789-24-4
MF: FLi
MW: 25.94
Lithium fluoride Chemical Properties

Melting point	845 °C (lit.)
Boiling point	1681 °C
density	2.64 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)
vapor pressure	0Pa at 25℃
MF

     Lithium Fluoride (LiF)  is a water insoluble Lithium source for use in oxygen-sensitive applications, such as metal production. It is most widely used as a flux in the production of ceramics, such as enamels, glasses and glazes. Similarly it is also used in brazing and welding fluxes and molten salt chemistry in metallurgy.
Lithium fluoride is also used for:
1. X-Ray monochromator plates as an analysis crystal: Lithium fluoride is also used for X-ray monochromator plates where its lattice spacing makes it the most useful analysis crystal.
2. Heat sink materials
3. UV transmission windows: Lithium fluoride is the material with the most extreme UV transmission of all and is used for special UV optics. Lithium fluoride transmits well into the VUV region at the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line (121nm) and beyond.

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