[Raymond]

Has any forum members ever had any involvement with Chlorine Trifluoride? good or bad?
                                                                     Regards.

[Hunter2]

Dangerous stuff, very corrosive and poisson. Used as oxididiser for rocket fuel.

[Maverick]

unless you have proper equipment and complete confidence in yourself that your ready to handle this compound i would stay away as said before toxic corrisive, reacts violently with water and intiates combustion with out an ignition source for many organic and innorganic compounds, just to give an idea this is from a place i read about it "In an industrial accident, a spill of 900 kg of chlorine trifluoride burned itself through 30 cm of concrete and 90 cm of gravel beneath."

[408]

Never used it, but the cylinder of it in the lab seems to be giving me the "I want you" look every time I see it.   

[Honclbrif]

Chlorine trifluoride definitely falls under the "reagent of last resort" category; its oxidizing power is almost as impressive as elemental fluorine. I can't find it anymore, but one company which sells it has a safety pamphlet full of pictures of ClF₃ igniting all sorts of fun things like nitrile gloves and a chicken breast. From what I hear, even asbestos burns in it. The only safe way to handle it is with fluoride passivated materials and even then if you get a scratch in your passive layer everything's over.