I sometimes wonder if the Aluminum Company of America, and its many subsidiary companies might not have a deep interest in getting rid of the waste products from the manufacture of aluminum, because these products contain a large amount of fluoride. Generally speaking, good progress has been made in reducing fluoride exposure to industrial workers by ventilation and emission control practices. Nerve gases, like insecticides, belong to a class of chemicals called organic phosphates. They kill by blocking the action of a chemical in the blood called cholinesterase. The chemical agent called Sarin consists of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and fluorine.
Water alone removes the fluorine atom producing a non toxic acid.
GB is another similar chemical warfare agent which depends on fluorine as the toxic ingredient. It is made up of slightly different proportions of the same elements. The National Institute of Dental Research became the third institute of the National Institutes of Health in June, 1948. The Many Faces of Science. Your family doctor doesn't really know anything about toxic chemicals.