How clever advertising can turn a powerful poison, fluoride, into an element that everyone wants to have in their bodies! Why did this happen; Just so that the fluorine "surplus" from the aluminum industries does not go to waste? Could it be because the Nazis were already using fluoridation as a means of manipulating the consciousness of the conquered peoples? Or are the extremists right, who argue that some have an interest in gradually mutating us, and the fluoridation of water and many other species fits into that context? The hidden role of unleaded petrol...
Πώς η μεθοδευμένη διαφημιστική εκστρατεία μπορεί να μετατρέψει ένα ισχυρότατο δηλητήριο, το φθόριο, σε στοιχείο που όλοι θέλουν να έχουν στο σώμα τους! Γιατί έγινε αυτό; Μόνο και μόνο για να μην πηγαίνει χαμένο το φθόριο που «περισσεύει» από τις βιομηχανίες αλουμινίου; Μήπως γιατί ήδη οι Ναζί εφάρμοζαν τη φθορίωση σαν μέσο χειραγώγησης της συνείδησης των κατακτημένων λαών; Ή μήπως έχουν δίκιο οι ακραίοι, που υποστηρίζουν ότι κάποιοι έχουν συμφέρον να μας μεταλλάξουν σταδιακά και η φθορίωση του νερού και πολλών άλλων ειδών εντάσσεται σε αυτά τα πλαίσια; Ο κρυφός ρόλος της αμόλυβδης βενζίνης...
About two months ago, a group of friends went to the house of one of us, in a village in Arcadia. Although the house we stayed in was quite new, upon entering we discovered that it had mice. As you can see, the next day's schedule has changed. The first job was to find rat poison...
...But the village store ran out of rat poison. We started talking about abandoning the plans for mountain walks and going to Dimitsana or Vytina, determined to solve the mouse problem. While we were talking, one of the traditional grandmothers of these villages heard us and said to help us. Her advice is very simple. "My children," he told us, "pour some toothpaste into a saucer, put a couple of spoonfuls of jam or honey for sweetness and smell, and mix them well. Then put a half-half teaspoon, as bait, in the places where you saw mice and you will be quiet from them." Her advice surprised us, but since we were not going to change our plan after all, we said we would implement it, although we did not have much faith in its effectiveness. Three weeks later we decided to go again. This time we didn't fail to take the necessary rat poison, laughing at grandma's recipe. When we got back into the house, we saw that most of the teaspoons of the toothpaste and honey mixture that we had put out as baits were missing. But what impressed us the most was that there were no traces of mice at all! This was something that surprised and scared me.
Returning to Athens, I began to look into the matter. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that, in fact, some of the fluoride compounds found in toothpaste today were used in the early decades of the twentieth century as... rat poison! And that the amount of fluorine compounds contained in an ordinary tube of toothpaste is enough to kill a child weighing up to twelve kilograms if accidentally eaten by it.
However, there are many more issues related to fluoride, its compounds, and its uses. It is worth noting that the data concerning the measured or permissible concentrations of fluorine compounds in various foods or household products come almost exclusively from the USA, as it was not possible to find the corresponding figures for Greece or the countries of the European Union in general.
Fluorine and fluorine compounds
Taking the matter from the beginning, we start with the fact that fluorine is one of the 92 chemical elements that exist on earth and belongs to the halogen family, along with chlorine, bromine, and iodine. In its natural form, it is a pale yellow gas, but to date, it has never been found free in nature, as it is extremely reactive and combines almost immediately with any other chemical element present in its vicinity. The only two chemical elements with which fluorine compounds have not yet been found are Helium and Neon.
All substances resulting from the union of fluorine with other chemical elements, whether organic or inorganic, are described under the common name "fluorine compounds" or "fluorides". Fluorine, in the form of its various compounds, is the thirteenth most abundant chemical element on the earth's surface.
The most common fluorine-containing mineral is silver diamond, a compound of fluorine with calcium ( CaF 2 ), which for centuries was used in metalworking and which gave fluorine its name, from the Latin verb fluo , meaning to flow. Other less common fluorine-containing minerals are cryolite ( NagAlFg ), fluorapatite ( Ca 5 ( P 04)3. F ), as well as other phosphate minerals.
Until about the time of World War I, fluorine was produced in very limited quantities for experimental purposes only and was a product that was rarely used. In the period between the two world wars, as the demand for aluminum and heavy industry in general increased, fluorine and fluorinated compounds began to be important by-products of the industry, initially considered as toxic waste and used mainly as rodenticides.
The production of fluorine and its products began to be in particular demand during the Second World War and, in particular, when the famous Manhattan Project began that eventually led to the construction of the atomic bomb by the USA, as huge quantities of fluorine were needed to gather and separate isotopes of uranium and other radioactive materials. This, after all, is one of the proposed reasons why the production and use of fluorine and fluorides was, and continues to be, protected.
After World War II and until today, fluorine and fluorinated compounds began to play an increasingly important role in the chemical, but also in the pharmaceutical industry. For example, two widespread products, chlorinated fluorocarbons, better known as freon or CFCs, and polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon ( r ).
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