Definitions for fluorine

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fluorine fluor·ine

Spelling: [floo r-een, -in, flawr-, flohr-]

IPA: /ˈflʊər in, -ɪn, ˈflɔr-, ˈfloʊr-/

Fluorine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in fluorine (efilnoru).

Definitions for fluorine

noun

1. the most reactive nonmetallic element, a pale-yellow, corrosive, toxic gas that occurs combined, especially in fluorite, cryolite, phosphate rock, and other minerals. Symbol: F; atomic weight: 18.9984; atomic number: 9.

Origin of fluorine

First recorded in 1805-15; fluor(ic) + -ine¹

Examples for fluorine

Chemically the topaz consists of alumina, silica and fluorine.

From this it will be understood that the fluorine will be evolved when the stone is fused.

Oxygen will combine with iron or lead or sodium, but cannot be made to combine with fluorine.

The action of fluorine on platinum has been studied with special care.

Iodine, fluorine, &c. had not been discovered at this period.

It is ready to unite with every known substance, fluorine excepted.

In such a layer, fluorine does not present any absorption bands.

Their pseudo-flesh is composed mainly of silicon and fluorine.

Had they pumped it full of fluorine, the result would not have been worse.

Compounds of fluorine and oxygen, and of bromine and oxygen, have not yet been isolated.