Definition of Fluorides

1. Noun. (plural of fluoride) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fluorides

1. fluoride [n] - See also: fluoride

Medical Definition of Fluorides

1. Inorganic salts of hydrofluoric acid, hf, in which the fluorine atom is in the -1 oxidation state. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluorides

fluoridate
fluoridated
fluoridated teeth
fluoridates
fluoridating
fluoridation
fluoridationist
fluoridationists
fluoridations
fluoridator
fluoridators
fluoride
fluoride number
fluoride poisoning
fluorided
fluorides (current term)
fluoridisation
fluoridise
fluoridization
fluoridize
fluoridone
fluoridosis
fluorids
fluorimaging
fluorimeter
fluorimeters
fluorimetric
fluorimetries
fluorimetry
fluorin

Literary usage of Fluorides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"Stannous and argentic fluorides are easily soluble in water, but those of potassium, sodium, and iron are only sparingly soluble; the other fluorides are ..."

2. The Astrophysical Journal by American Astronomical Society, University of Chicago (1905)
"I have discovered that the case is different for the fluorides of calcium, strontium, ... We must thus admit the existence of vapors of these fluorides, ..."

3. A Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics, or, the Action of drugs in by Arthur Robertson Cushny (1918)
"The fluorides are equally poisonous to the higher organisms, and in addition ... The fluorides absorbed from the alimentary canal are excreted by the urine, ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1890)
"Early in the work the fluorides, such as sodium fluoride, seemed to offer a ... The fluorides do not appear to have as yet had any extended commercial use, ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"With the metals, fluorine forms the Metallic fluorides or Hypothetical! y anhydrous ... The fluorides have no metallic lustre ; one of them, the fluoride of ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"Several fluorides combine with oxides in the same manner as chlorides and iodides. ... The neutral fluorides of cobalt, nickel, and copper are decomposed by ..."

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