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`OF_(2)` should be called oxygen difluolide and not fluorine oxide - Why ?

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`OF_(2)` should be called oxygen difluoride and not fluoride oxide.
`to` The binary compounds of oxygen with fluoride are not pronounced as oxides because the electronegativity of fluorine is greater than oxygen.
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