Fluorine and iodine compounds, both organic and inorganic, were tested as flame retardants for cotton. Comparison with bromine and chlorine compounds showed that the effectiveness of the halogens, on an equal weight basis, increases in the order. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, with the last two about equally effective.
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