fluorine

English

Chemical element (edit)
F Atomic number 9 fluorine
Classification data Period 2 Group 17 Block p-block Class halogen
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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?

Latin fluō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin fluor

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ine

English fluorine

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: flo͝or'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin, -ɪn/; enPR: flôr'ēn′, -ĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈfloɹˌin, -ɪn/

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Noun

fluorine (countable and uncountable, plural fluorines)

2. (chemistry, 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

   1. (chemistry, countable) An atom of this element.

   an octahedron of fluorines

Synonyms

• phthor (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• element
  • halogen

Derived terms

• difluorine
• flox
• Flox
• fluo-
• fluor-, fluoro-
• fluorian
• fluoride
• fluorinate
• fluorination
• fluorine-18
• fluorine-19
• fluorine absorption dating
• fluorine dating
• fluorinelike
• fluorine method
• fluorine oxide
• fluorine test
• nonfluorine
• organofluorine
• radiofluorine

Related terms

• fluor
• fluoric
• fluorite

Translations

chemical element — see also fluoride

• Afrikaans: fluoor (af)
• Albanian: fluor (sq) ?
• Arabic: فُلُور (ar) m (fulūr)
• 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: fluorin m
• Corsican: fluoru m
• Czech: fluor (cs) m
• Danish: fluor (da) ?
• Dutch: fluor (nl) n
• Esperanto: fluoro (eo)
• Estonian: fluor (et)
• Farefare: fulu-ya-walʋm
• Faroese: flúr n
• Finnish: fluori (fi)
• French: fluor (fr) m, phthore (fr) m (obsolete)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: fluor (fy) ?

• 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) n
• 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: 불소(弗素) (ko) (bulso), 플루오르 (ko) (peulluoreu), 플루오린 (ko) (peulluorin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: fluor

• Latin: fluorum (la) n
• Latvian: fluors m
• Lingala: folina class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: fluoras (lt) ?
• Low German: fluor ?
• Luxembourgish: Fluor ?
• Macedonian: флуор (mk) m (fluor)
• Malay: fluorin (ms)
• Malayalam: , ഫ്ലൂറിൻ (phlūṟiṉ)
• Maltese: fluworu m
• Manx: flooareen m
• Māori: pūkōwhai
• Marathi: फ्लोरिन ? (phlorin)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: фтор (mn) (ftor), флор (flor) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠹᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ (ftor), ᠹᠯᠣᠷ (flor)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fluor (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: fluor (nn) m or n

• 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

  Latin: 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), புளோரின் (ta) (puḷōriṉ)
• Thai: ฟลูออรีน (th) (fluu-ɔɔ-riin)
• Turkish: flor (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: فلعور (fl-ōr)

• Ukrainian: фтор m (ftor)
• Urdu: فلورین ? (florīn)
• Uyghur: فتور (ftor)
• Uzbek: фтор (uz) (ftor), ftor (uz)
• Vietnamese: flo (vi)
• Volapük: fluorin (vo)
• Welsh: fflworin (cy) m

See also

• fluorene

References

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɔ.ʁin/

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Noun

fluorine f (plural fluorines)

1. fluorite

Further reading

• “fluorine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012