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Fluorine   /flˈʊrˌin/  /flˈɔrˌin/   Listen
Fluorine

noun
1.
A nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite.  Synonyms: atomic number 9, F.





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"Fluorine" Quotes from Famous Books



... bombs were not heavy charges; their main purposes was to make a flare bright enough to be seen for thousands of miles in space. Fluorine and magnesium made plenty of ...
— The Man Who Hated Mars • Gordon Randall Garrett
... glass—apparently decomposing, throwing out filmy threads of clear glass and bubbles of glass which break, liberating a gas (fluorine?) which, attacking the white-hot platinum, causes rings of color to appear round the specimen. I have now been using the apparatus for nearly a month, and in its earliest days it led me right in the diagnosis ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various


Words linked to "Fluorine" :   Greenland spar, chemical element, cryolite, element, fluorapatite, halogen, fluorite, gas, fluorspar, fluor


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