Fluorine is element 9, a halogen of the p block, in group 17, period 2. Its ground-state configuration is [He] 2s2 2p5, and it usually shows the oxidation states -1, 0.
It was discovered in 1886, by Moissan.
Name origin: the Latin fluere, 'to flow'.
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