With increasing fluorine content the colour changes from dark grey to cream white indicating the loss of the aromatic character.

The fluorine atoms are located in an alternating fashion above and under the former graphene plane, which is now buckled due to formation of covalent carbon-fluorine bonds.

Reaction of carbon with fluorine at even higher temperature successively destroys the graphite compound to yield a mixture of gaseous fluorocarbons such as tetrafluoromethane, CF4, and tetrafluoroethylene, C2F4.

[4] Carbon monofluoride is used as a high-energy-density cathode material in lithium batteries of the "BR" type.

Graphite fluoride is also used as both oxidizing agent and combustion modifier in rocket propellants and pyrolants.