French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated the element fluorine on June 26, 1886.
He achieved this by electrolyzing a solution of potassium hydrogen difluoride in liquid hydrogen fluoride using an ingenious platinum apparatus. This breakthrough ended a decades-long quest that had cost the lives of several earlier scientists.
For this monumental achievement, Moissan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1906
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