fluorine
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin fluor (“flow”) + -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: flo͝or'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA(key): /ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin, -ɪn/; enPR: flôr'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA(key): /ˈfloɹˌin, -ɪn/
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Noun
[edit]fluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)
- (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals.
- Hypernym: halogen
- (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.
- an octahedron of fluorines
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Fluorine on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluorine f (plural fluorines)
Further reading
[edit]- “fluorine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluorine (first-person possessive fluorineku, second-person possessive fluorinemu, third-person possessive fluorinenya)
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