fluorite

See also: Fluorite

English

A deep green isolated fluorite crystal.

Etymology

From fluor +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflʊɚˌaɪt/, /ˈflɔɹˌaɪt/

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

2. (mineralogy) A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.

   Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar

   Hypernyms: mineral < material

   Hyponyms: blue John, Derbyshire spar

   Near-synonym: calcium fluoride

   Fluorite is an important natural resource of Thailand.

Derived terms

• antifluorite
• fluoritization
• hypofluorite
• yttrofluorite

Translations

mineral

• Catalan: fluorita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螢石 / 萤石 (zh) (yíngshí), 氟石 (zh) (fúshí)

• Danish: fluorit c, flusspat c
• Estonian: fluoriit
• Finnish: fluoriitti
• French: fluorite (fr) f, fluorine (fr) f
• Galician: fluorita (gl) f
• German: Fluorit m
• Hungarian: fluorit (hu)
• Italian: fluorite f
• Japanese: 蛍石 (ja) (ほたるいし, hotaruishi)
• Kazakh: флюорит (flüorit)
• Kyrgyz: флюорит (flyuorit)
• Latin: murra (la) f
• Polish: fluoryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: fluorita f
• Romanian: fluorit m
• Russian: флюори́т (ru) m (fljuorít)
• Spanish: fluorita (es) f, fluorina f

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Fluorite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fluorite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

Italian

Etymology

From fluoro +‎ -ite.

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

1. fluorite

Further reading

• fluorite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• fluiterò