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Mineral with yellow colour taken after sickness
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fluor
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine [syn: fluorite , fluorspar ]
Wikipedia
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The word may also refer to: Fluorite : class of minerals Fluor Corporation : a company Fluorine : the chemical element Fluorophore , a fluorescent chemical compound
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. fluorite (symbol: F).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluorite \Flu"or*ite\, n. (Min.) Calcium fluoride ( CaF2 ), a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, an old chemistry term for "minerals which were readily fusible and useful as fluxes in smelting" [Flood], from Latin fluor , originally meaning "a flowing, flow" (see fluent ), said to be from a translation of the German miners' name, flusse . Since ...
Usage examples of fluor.
Now, in the case of a debilitated female patient, a physician naturally thinks first of chlorosis or the fluor albus or some other such adust ion of the womb.
With ores that produce a thick slag the addition of 5 grams of fluor spar will be an advantage.
Fluor, is present in the surface of the bones, in the enamel of the teeth, and in the elastic fibres of the skin, muscular tissue and blood vessels.