Definitions for fluorspar

fluorspar flu·or·spar

Spelling: [floo-awr-spahr, -er-]
IPA: /ˈflu ɔrˌspɑr, -ər-/

Fluorspar is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 345 anagrams from letters in fluorspar (afloprrsu).

Definitions for fluorspar

noun

  1. fluorite.

Origin of fluorspar

First recorded in 1785-95; fluor- + spar3

Examples for fluorspar

Agricola derived the name fluores from fluo "to flow," and we in turn obtain "fluorite," or "fluorspar," from Agricola.

Examples of simple forms amongst crystallized substances are octahedra of alum and spinel and cubes of salt and fluorspar.

The production of fluorspar in the United States is several times that of any other country.

Der′byshire-neck, a form of the disease goitre, occurring in Derbyshire; Der′byshire-spar, a fluorspar found in Derbyshire.

fluorspar is the trade name for the mineral fluorite, which is composed of calcium fluoride.

The fluoride of calcium, or fluorspar, may be used for this experiment.

When the experiment is performed in the fluorspar tube, the gaseous fluoride may be collected over mercury.

The United States has sufficient supplies of fluorspar to meet all its own demands for this material.

Those stones which show electricity on the application of pressure are such as the fluorspar, calcite, and topaz.

Metallic calcium also burns in fluorine gas, forming the fused fluoride, and occasionally minute crystals of fluorspar.

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