stannous fluoride

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   a white powder that is used to fluoridate toothpaste

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Questions about stannous fluoride

What does stannous fluoride mean?

stannous fluoride means "a white powder that is used to fluoridate toothpaste".

Is stannous fluoride a common word?

stannous 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.