fluorinenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈflɔː.riːn/us/ˈflɔːr.iːn/symbol Fa chemical element that is a poisonous, pale yellow gas
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Chemical elements
- alkali metal
- antimony
- calcium
- carbonic
- carbonic acid
- cesium
- cl
- graphene
- lithium
- molybdenum
- nickel
- quicksilver
- sodium
- strontium
- sulphur
- transition metal
- tungsten
- urea
- vanadium
- zinc
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- Arsenic combines with fluorine at the ordinary temperature with incandescence.
- Nitric acid vapor reacts with great violence with fluorine, a loud explosion resulting.
- Perhaps this may be explained by the fact that fluorine has no action at available temperatures upon carbon dioxide.
- The corresponding negative group consists only of fluorine and manganese, so far as our investigations have gone.
- The element fluorine has at last been successfully isolated, and its chief chemical and physical properties determined.