fluorine

Questions about fluorine

What does fluorine mean?

fluorine means "a nonmetallic univalent element belonging to the halogens; usually a yellow irritating toxic flammable gas; a powerful oxidizing agent; recovered from fluorite or cryolite or fluorapatite".

How many syllables are in fluorine?

fluorine has 2 syllables: fluor-ine. The stress falls on "fluor". In IPA it is /ˈflʊˌɹin/.

What is another word for fluorine?

Close synonyms include F, atomic number 9. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fluorine a common word?

fluorine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fluorine?

4 words rhyme with fluorine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.