sodium Fluoride instead of Calcium fluoride

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bee

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I can not find Calcium fluoride so can i use sodium fluoride instead of calcium fluoride as flux or how can i made it easily the sodium fluoride is easily available.
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bee
 
Perhaps you can you sodium fluoride as as substitute for calcium fluoride, but personally I wouldn't make this choice. Calcium fluoride is also found as Fluorite or fluorspar, have you tried searching with this name?

Sodium fluoride as hydrogen fluoride is very toxic, it permeates the skin and "steals" calcium atoms from you. The pain of this "burn" takes some hours to arrive, it may lead to a heart attack (I think).

To make calcium fluoride from sodium fluoride, just add calcium hydroxide until you see no more precipitant.

the reaction:

NaF (aq) + CaOH (aq) -> CaF (s) + NaOH (aq)

Edit:
2 NaF (aq) + Ca(OH)2 (aq) -> CaF2 (s) + 2 NaOH (aq)
 

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