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Inorganic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Sulfur Hexafluoride
Organic Chemicals > Sulfur Compounds > Sulfur Hexafluoride
Inorganic Chemicals > Gases > Sulfur Hexafluoride
... > Inorganic Chemicals > Electrolytes > Ions > Anions > Fluorides > Sulfur Hexafluoride
Inorganic Chemicals > Fluorine Compounds > Hydrofluoric Acid > Fluorides > Sulfur Hexafluoride
... > Inorganic Chemicals > Acids > Acids, Noncarboxylic > Hydrofluoric Acid > Fluorides > Sulfur Hexafluoride

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Sulfur Hexafluoride  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • an inert gas used in resp physiol studies

Scope note

  • Sulfur hexafluoride. An inert gas used mainly as a test gas in respiratory physiology. Other uses include its injection in vitreoretinal surgery to restore the vitreous chamber and as a tracer in monitoring the dispersion and deposition of air pollutants.

History note

  • 91(80); was see under FLUORIDES 1980-90

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