fluoric

[floo-awr-ik, -or-]

adjective

Chemistry. pertaining to or obtained from fluorine.

Mineralogy. of, pertaining to, or derived from fluorite.

Origin:
1780–90; < French fluorique. See fluor-, -ic

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a colorless, toxic, water-soluble gas having a suffocating odor, used chiefly as a disinfectant and preservative, contained in resins and plastics

any of a class of chemical compounds having the general formula ROH, where R represents an alkyl group and ?OH a hydroxyl group

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fluoric (fluːˈɔːrɪk)

—*adj*
	of, concerned with, or produced from fluorine or fluorspar

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