sodium fluoride

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   a colorless crystalline salt of sodium (NaF) used in fluoridation of water and to prevent tooth decay

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Questions about sodium fluoride

What does sodium fluoride mean?

sodium fluoride means "a colorless crystalline salt of sodium (NaF) used in fluoridation of water and to prevent tooth decay".

Is sodium fluoride a common word?

sodium 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.