zirconifluoride

English

Noun

zirconifluoride (plural zirconifluorides)

1. (chemistry) Any compound containing the radical ZrF₆.
   • 1917, Robert Martin Caven, Carbon and Its Allies, page 265:

     This substance is potassium zirconifluoride, to which there correspond isomorphous silicifluorides, titanifluorides, and stannifluorides.

   • 1954, Gaston Charlot, Qualitative Inorganic Analysis, page 80:

     The tendency to form the complex zirconifluoride ion is so strong that the acidified solution of the zirconium salt dissolves some of the calcium fluoride by withdrawal of fluoride ions […]

Related terms

• zircon
• zirconium
• zirconofluoride