fluoborate

[floo-uh-bawr-eyt, -it, -bohr-]

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noun

Chemistry.

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A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; Ð called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

Boron can be estimated by precipitation as potassium fluoborate, which is insoluble in a mixture of potassium acetate and alcohol.

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