Explain the usage of :

● Fluorine
- Compounds of fluorine, including sodium fluoride, are used in toothpaste
and in drinking water to prevent dental cavities.
- Fluorine is used in rocket fuels. Fluorine is a very reactive element which makes
it good for very explosive reactions.
- Refrigeration Fluids, Freon is pumped through a whole system of tubes. As the
Freon moves through your refrigerator, it makes everything cold. One of the main
elements in Freon is fluorine.

● Chlorine
- Chlorine is commonly used as an antiseptic and is used to make drinking water
safe and to treat swimming pools. Large amounts of chlorine are used in many
industrial processes, such as in the production of paper products, plastics, dyes,
textiles, medicines, antiseptics, insecticides, solvents and paints.

● Bromine
- Bromine compounds are effective pesticides, used both as soil fumigants in
agriculture, particularly fruit-growing, and as a fumigant to prevent pests from
attacking stored grain and other produce.

● Iodine
- Iodide salts are used in pharmaceuticals and disinfectants, printing inks and
dyes, catalysts, animal feed supplements and photographic chemicals. Iodine is
 also used to make polarising filters for
LCD displays.

Iodide is added in small amounts to table

salt, in order to avoid iodine deficiency
affecting the thyroid gland. The
radioactive isotope iodine-131 is
sometimes used to treat
cancerous thyroid
glands.

● Astatine
- statine is sometimes used as a radioactive tracer and in cancer treatment. Like
iodine, it is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland.