Crossword clues for fluoride
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluoride \Flu"or*ide\ (? or ?; 104), n. [Cf. F. fluoride.] (Chem.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.
Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"compound of fluorine with another element," 1826, from fluorine + -ide.
Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.
WordNet
n. a salt of hydrofluoric acid
Wikipedia
Fluoride , is an inorganic, monatomic anion of fluorine with the chemical formula . Fluoride is the simplest anion of fluorine. Its salts and minerals are important chemical reagents and industrial chemicals, mainly used in the production of hydrogen fluoride for fluorocarbons. In terms of charge and size, the fluoride ion resembles the hydroxide ion. Fluoride ions occur on earth in several minerals, particularly fluorite, but are only present in trace quantities in water. Fluoride contributes a distinctive bitter taste. It contributes no color to fluoride salts.
Usage examples of "fluoride".
For dyeing with the Alizarine colours, using chrome fluoride as the mordant, it can be applied with fair success.
In it are dissolved varying quantities of metallic and non-metallic fluorides, such as boron trifluoride, sodium fluoride, etc.
Thomsen decomposed cryolite with calcium hydroxide into calcium fluoride and sodium aluminate.
The fluorides react with the carbon anodes to form polyfluorocarbons, which are carcinogenic.
Huge amounts of sulfur, shock-heated nitrogen, and great doses of fluorides were injected into the atmosphere.
But there are abundant microbes on Zaranai that metabolize fluorides and release fluorine gas as a waste product.
Also, the moisture in the air reacts with the cryolite to form sodium fluoride, hydrofluoric acid, and alumina, thus further worsening the ratio.
The exhaust would be hydrogen fluoride, horrendously corrosive stuff which will eat almost anything, including glass.
Some other molecules--hydrogen fluoride, for example--might approach water in their ability to dissolve other molecules, but the cosmic abundance of fluorine is extremely low.
I had a notion about how to do that, too, how to force neon to link up with hydrogen fluoride and make a new molecule God didn't think of.
There were murky references to brainwashing in the public schools, fluoride in the water, and the unlawful imposition of income taxes.
Aurbach, Nonaqueous Electrochemistry, 503) A typical electrolyte is 2-8% alumina, 5-7% calcium fluoride, 5-7% excess aluminum fluoride, 0-7% lithium fluoride, and 80-85% cryolite.
The agent reacts with the magnesium to produce a magnesium chloride or fluoride which rises to the surface and is trapped by the flux.
Calcium Fluoride should not be confused with Sodium Fluoride which is used for fluoridating water supplies.
For drug or alcohol testing one collects blood samples in gray-top tubes with sodium fluoride.