Curious timing, a Scottish newspaper says:
BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas, the Sunday Mail can reveal today. Export licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride were granted months after the bloody civil war in the Middle East began. The chemical is capable of being used to make weapons such as sarin....
Link:http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk...micals-2242520

Yes the chemicals have an industrial use, aluminium windows!