Talk:Covalent radius of fluorine

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This article seems to confuse two distinct physical quantities:

• the bond length in the difluorine molecule; and
• the covalent radius of a fluorine atom when it is bound to atoms other than fluorine.

I would invite the author to reread it and try to correct this problem, as the sources are excellent and I am sure that he or she has a valid point to be made. Physchim62 (talk) 14:56, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opening sentence

This article has perhaps the most fantastically unhelpful opening sentence I have yet read in Wikipedia:

"covalent radius of fluorine is a measure of the covalent radius of fluorine"

O rly? -69.47.186.226 08:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)