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Definition of Hydrogen fluoride
1. Noun. A colorless poisonous corrosive liquid made by the action of sulphuric acid on calcium fluoride; solutions in water are hydrofluoric acid.
Definition of Hydrogen fluoride
1. Noun. (chemistry) a colourless fuming liquid or gas, having a molecular formula of HF; it dissolves in water to form hydrofluoric acid and has many industrial uses including the production of teflon and the refining of uranium; it corrodes skin, flesh and bone, and any skin contact must be avoided ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrogen Fluoride
Literary usage of Hydrogen fluoride
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The halogens furnish with hydrogen compounds in which a single atom of hydrogen
is united with a single atom of the halogen, vu. :— hydrogen fluoride or ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"Hydrofluoric acid or hydrogen fluoride HF. \ The corrosive action of ...
The molecular weight of hydrogen fluoride lias been a source of some controversy. ..."
3. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman, Hermon Charles Cooper (1911)
"hydrogen fluoride, or HYDROFLUORIC ACID, HF. 53. This compound was discovered by
... hydrogen fluoride."
4. Modern Inorganic Chemistry by Joseph William Mellor (1912)
"The three latter will not stand heating, and consequently the further investigation
of this gas- thè " spirit of fluorspar "—hydrogen fluoride, ..."
5. Fownes Manual of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical: A New American from by George Fownes (1885)
"hydrogen fluoride, or Hydrofluoric Acid, HF.—When powdered calcium fluoride is
heated with concentrated sulphuric acid in a retort of platinum or lead ..."
6. A Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry by Arnold Frederik Holleman (1908)
"hydrogen fluoride, or HYDROFLUORIC ACID, HF. 53. This compound was discovered by
SCHEELE in 1771 upon heating together fluorspar and sulphuric acid: ..."
7. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"... \vith separation of , in dil. HNO,+Aq, and HF+Aq. g. 110. 628.) Mercurous hydrogen
fluoride ... hydrogen fluoride ..."
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