fluorite

See also: Fluorite

English

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

1. A widely occurring mineral (calcium fluoride), of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.

   Fluorite is the main natural resource of Thailand.

Synonyms

• calcium fluoride
• Derbyshire spar
• fluor
• fluorspar

Translations

mineral

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 萤石 (zh) (yíngshí)、螢石 (zh) (yíngshí)、氟石 (zh) (fúshí)

• Estonian: fluoriit
• Finnish: fluoriitti
• French: fluorite (fr) f
• German: Fluorit m
• Hungarian: fluorit (hu)

• Italian: fluorite f
• Japanese: 蛍石 (ほたるいし, hotaruishi)
• Polish: fluoryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: fluorita f
• Romanian: fluorit m
• Russian: флюори́т (ru) m (fljuorít)
• Spanish: fluorita f, fluorina f

See also

• blue John

Further reading

• “Fluorite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[1], 1997–.
• fluorite mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

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Italian

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

1. fluorite