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n. (context chemistry English) any fluoride containing six fluorine atoms in each molecule
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A hexafluoride is a chemical compound with the general formula RXF, RXF, or RXF. Many molecules fit this formula. An important hexafluoride is hexafluorosilicic acid (HSiF), which is a byproduct of the mining of phosphate rock. In the nuclear industry, uranium hexafluoride (UF) is an important intermediate in the purification of this element. Several compounds in organofluorine chemistry are also hexafluorides.
Usage examples of "hexafluoride".
Uranium appears as uranium hexafluoride, all ready for the diffusion process.
Uranium-235, U-238, uranium hexafluoride, centrifuges, gaseous diffusion, thermal diffusion .
Portsmouth OH reports four kilograms of enriched uranium hexafluoride missing and then suffers a cataclysmic fire that forces evacuation of six downwind counties.
The best chemical for this is uranium hexafluoride, which is as poisonous as mustard gas and hideously corrosive to boot.
We have tried to speed up the uranium hexafluoride project to compensate, but there are difficulties with it.
I tell you that, after you go look at this uranium hexafluoride setup, we will give you not just ginger powder with your rice and fish, but pickled ginger root, as much as you can eat?
It did not see the vats of poison gas in preparation, nor the uranium hexafluoride destined for the gas-diffusion centrifuges of the isotope separation plant.
When Sax had been made head of the terraforming project in 2042, he had immediately initiated the construction of factories to produce and release into the atmosphere a special greenhouse gas mix, composed mostly of carbon tetrafluoride, hexafluoroethane, and sulphur hexafluoride, along with some methane and nitrous oxide.
So the plan called for production and release of tons of carbon tetrafluoride, hexafluoroethane, sulfur hexafluoride, methane, nitrous oxide, and trace elements of other chemicals which helped to decrease the rate at which UV radiation destroyed these halocarbons.
We even got snotty about giving him a supply of uranium hexafluoride, when it was Abelson, for Christ's sake, who first produced the stuff for us.
The Monte Carlo method was first devised as a means of predicting the rate of diffusion of uranium hexafluoride through a porous barrier -- it's been put to other uses since.