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Thread #128848   Message #2896065
Posted By: Jack Campin
28-Apr-10 - 01:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
Subject: RE: BS: Good luck to Skarpi,: Volcanos and Banks
The fluorine is most dangerous in the form of hydrogen fluoride gas, which poisons just about everything (and with the Laki eruption of 1783-4, seems to have damaged crops all across Europe). Once the acute phase of the eruption is over, the remaining fluoride content of the ash doesn't matter much.