fluoridizationn.
/ˌflʊərᵻdʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌflɔːrᵻdʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌflʊrəˌdaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌflɔrəˌdaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1.
a. = fluoridation n. 2a.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > impregnation of substances with medicaments > [noun] > with specific substance
fluoridization1939
fluorination1941
fluoridation1949
1939 Jrnl. Amer. Water Works Assoc. 31 1929 Every use of water must be examined as well as current water treatment practices before fluoridization can be begun.
1949 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Public Health Dentists Aug. 12/2 Investigators are agreed that the term ‘fluorination’ of water supplies is incorrect and that the proper term is ‘fluoridization’.
1966 Listener 6 Oct. 499/3 The evidence upon which the Ministry of Health recommends the fluoridization of drinking water.
1976 Lancet 7 Feb. 302/1 The leaflet also states the cost of fluoridisation of the water supply of a 50 million population is £7 500 000 per annum.
2007 M. R. Sanua Let Us Prove Strong i. 81 The Salk polio vaccine and fluoridization of the water were allegedly part of the international Jewish conspiracy.
b. = fluoridation n. 2b. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > other dental procedures
remineralization1828
reattachment1846
articulation1849
aurification1881
root work1903
apicectomy1914
spatulation1939
fluoridation1951
fluoridization1951
splintage1956
splinting1960
replant1969
1951 Sci. News Let. 19 May 310/3 Fluoridation for the water supply, fluoridization for the treatment procedure when the dentist puts a fluoride on the children's teeth.
1966 Jrnl. Public Health Dentistry 26 313 Fluoridization probably will continue for a long time as an important preventive measure, to be used in dental offices and in community dental programs, because many millions of children drink nonfluoride-bearing water.
2. In wider use: the process of treating or combining with fluorine or fluoride; conversion into a fluoride.
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1957 Jrnl. Paleontol. 31 793 Calcium carbonate microfossils treated with hydrofluoric acid are converted to calcium fluoride, which is translucent when wet. This process, termed fluoridization by the writers, provides a means for investigation of internal structures which is rapid and relatively simple.
1969 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 91 115R/3 The simultaneous fluoridization of zirconium and sulfidization of molybdenum was used to increase the sensitivity of the determination of zirconium in molybdenum using an ac arc.
2010 Internat. Jrnl. Hydrogen Energy 35 1253/2 Other researchers either use organic additives to change the surface properties of the alloy, or use acidic F− ions to clean the surface (fluoridization).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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