Radiat ive double electron capture (RDEC), the one-step process occurring in ion-atom collisions, has been investigated for bare fluorine ions collid ing with carbon. RDEC is completed when two target electrons are captured to a bound state of a projectile s imu ltaneously with the emission of a single photon. This work is a follow-up to our earlier measurement of RDEC for bare o xygen projectiles, thus providing a recipient system free of electron-related Coulo mb fields in both cases and allowing for the compar ison between the two collision systems as well as with available theoretical studies. The most significant mechanisms of xray emission that may contribute to the RDEC energy region as background processes are also addressed.