hydrogen fluoride

1. 1.

   a colorless poisonous corrosive liquid made by the action of sulphuric acid on calcium fluoride; solutions in water are hydrofluoric acid

   Broaderfluoride

Questions about hydrogen fluoride

What does hydrogen fluoride mean?

hydrogen fluoride means "a colorless poisonous corrosive liquid made by the action of sulphuric acid on calcium fluoride; solutions in water are hydrofluoric acid".

Is hydrogen fluoride a common word?

hydrogen fluoride 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.