fluorine

English

Chemical element
F
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Etymology

From Latin fluor (“flow”) +‎ -ine. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1813.

Pronunciation

• enPR: flo͝or'ēn, IPA^(key): /ˈflʊəɹiːn/; enPR: flôr'ēn, IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːɹiːn/

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Noun

fluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)

2. (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol F) with an atomic number of 9. It is the lightest of the halogens, a pale yellow-green, highly reactive gas that attacks all metals.

   Hypernym: halogen

3. (chemistry, countable) A single atom of this element.

   an octahedron of fluorines

Derived terms

• fluo-
• fluor-, fluoro-
• fluorian
• fluoride
• fluorinate
• fluorination
• fluorine-18
• fluorine-19
• fluorine dating
• fluorine method
• fluorine oxide
• fluorine test

 

Related terms

• fluor
• fluoric
• fluorite

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: fluoor (af)
• Albanian: fluor (sq) ?
• Arabic: فِلُور m (filūr)
• Armenian: ֆտոր (hy) (ftor)
• Asturian: flúor (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: flüor
• Basque: fluoroa
• Belarusian: фтор m (ftor)
• Bengali: ফ্লুরিন (phlurin)
• Breton: fluor m
• Bulgarian: флуо́р (bg) m (fluór)
• Catalan: fluor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氟 (zh) (fú)

• Chuvash: фтор (ftor)
• Cornish: fluryn ?
• Corsican: fluoru ?
• Czech: fluor (cs) m
• Danish: fluor (da) ?
• Dutch: fluor (nl) n
• Esperanto: fluoro (eo)
• Estonian: fluor (et)
• Faroese: flúr ?
• Finnish: fluori (fi)
• French: fluor (fr) m
• Friulian: fluôr ?
• Galician: flúor (gl) m
• Georgian: ფთორი (ptori)
• German: Fluor (de) n
• Greek: φθόριο (el) n (fthório)
• Haitian Creole: fliyò
• Hawaiian: fluorine
• Hebrew: פלואור (he) (fluor)
• Hindi: तरस्विनी ? (tarasvinī)
• Hungarian: fluor (hu)
• Icelandic: flúor (is) n, flúr (is) ?
• Ido: fluoro (io)
• Indonesian: fluor (id)
• Interlingua: fluor
• Irish: fluairín (ga) m
• Italian: fluoro (it) m
• Japanese: フッ素 (ja) (fusso), 弗素 (ja) (fusso), フッソ (fusso), 氟素 (fusso)
• Kannada: ಫ್ಲೂರೀನ್ (phlūrīn)
• Kashubian: fluòr m
• Kazakh: фтор (kk) (ftor)
• Khmer: ភ្លុយអរ (phluyʼɑɑ)
• Korean: 플루오르 (ko) (peulluoreu), 불소 (ko) (弗素, bulso), 플루오린 (ko) (peulluorin)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

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• Latin: fluorum (la) n
• Latvian: fluors m
• Lingala: folina class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: fluoras (lt) ?
• Low German: fluor ?
• Luxembourgish: Fluor ?
• Macedonian: флуор m (fluor)
• Malay: fluorin
• Malayalam: ഫ്ലൂറിന് (phlūṟiṉ)
• Maltese: fluoru ?
• Manx: fluoreen ?
• Maori: pūkōwhai
• Marathi: फ्लोरिन ? (phlorin)
• Mongolian: фтор (mn) (ftor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fluor (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: fluor (nn) m or n

• Novial:
• Occitan: fluor m
• Persian: فلوئور (fa) (folu'or, felo'or, flu'or)
• Polish: fluor (pl) m
• Portuguese: flúor (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਫਲੋਰੀਨ ? (phlōrīn)
• Quechua: flur
• Romanian: fluor (ro) n
• Russian: фтор (ru) m (ftor)
• Santali: ᱯᱷᱞᱚᱨᱤᱱ (phlôrin)
• Scottish Gaelic: fluorain m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: флу̏о̄р m

  Roman: flȕōr (sh) m

• Sicilian: fluoru (scn) ?
• Slovak: fluór (sk) m
• Slovene: fluor (sl) ?
• Spanish: flúor (es) m
• Swahili: florini class 9/10
• Swedish: fluor (sv) n or c
• Tajik: фтор (tg) (ftor)
• Tamil: ஃவுளூரின் (ḥvuḷūriṉ), வினைவியம் (viṉaiviyam)
• Thai: ฟลูออรีน (th) (fluu-ɔɔ-riin)
• Turkish: flor (tr)
• Ukrainian: фтор m (ftor)
• Urdu: فلورین ? (florīn)
• Uzbek: фтор (uz) (ftor), ftor (uz)
• Vietnamese: flo (vi)
• Volapük: fluorin (vo)
• Welsh: fflworin (cy) m
• West Frisian: fluor (fy) ?

References

• Fluorine on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• fluorene