hydrofluoric acid

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   a weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water

   Broaderacid

Questions about hydrofluoric acid

What does hydrofluoric acid mean?

hydrofluoric acid means "a weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water".

Is hydrofluoric acid a common word?

hydrofluoric acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.