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Water fluoridation involves the intentional dosing of municipal water supplies with fluoride waste products from industry in order to achieve a fluoride concentration of approximately one part in a million by weight. That is, approximately 1 part of acidic and highly toxic liquid waste is added to roughly 180,000 parts of municipal water. Highly alkaline sodium hydroxide then needs to be added to prevent the toxic fluoride component from leaching copper from copper plumbing.

The dosing agent is a dangerous, toxic and fuming liquid with a density of approx. 1.2 g/cc. It contains approx. 20 wt % fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) and up to 1 % of hydrofluoric acid (one of the most hazardous and corrosive inorganic acids known). This product is extremely dangerous to handle, transport and store.