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Explain: covalent fluorides are chemically more inert than other covalent halides.

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C - F bond is the strongest of the carbon-halogen covalent bonds. Hence, alkyl fluorides are chemically and thermodynamically quite stable and do not share any of the reactivity patterns exhibited by other alkyl halides.
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