Word Meanings - FLUORIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride , fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.

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• CALCIUM
  An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca. Note: Calcium is widely
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• BINARY
  Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two . Binary arithmetic, that in which numbers are expressed according to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• FLUORITE
  Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• FLUORIDE
  A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride , fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• SILICOFLUORIDE
  A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.
• OXYCALCIUM
  Of or pertaining to oxygen and calcium; as, the oxycalcium light. See Drummond light.