fluorine

From Latin fluor (“flow”) +‎ -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813.

• (General American) enPR: flo͝or'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin, -ɪn/; enPR: flôr'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈfloɹˌin, -ɪn/

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fluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)

2. (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

3. (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.

   an octahedron of fluorines

• phthor (obsolete)

• element
  • halogen

• fluorene

• Fluorine on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔ.ʁin/

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fluorine f (plural fluorines)

1. fluorite

• “fluorine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fluorine (plural fluorine-fluorine)

1. fluorin