fluor

Fluor acid air is procured by dissolving the earthy substance called fluor in vitriolic acid.
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry|Joseph Priestley
The nitrous acid may be exhibited in the form of air, as well as the vitriolic, the marine, and the fluor acids.
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry|Joseph Priestley
Fluor spar is as favorable a gangue for lead as quartz is for gold.
The A B C of Mining|Charles A. Bramble
Fluor: fluor-spar as free as possible from other minerals, powdered.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

A wide-mouthed clay pot is taken and a little fluor spar added.
A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.|Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

British Dictionary definitions for fluor (1 of 2)

fluor

/ (ˈfluːɔː) /

noun

another name for fluorspar

Word Origin for fluor

C17: from Latin: a flowing; so called from its use as a metallurgical flux

British Dictionary definitions for fluor (2 of 2)

fluor-

combining form

a variant of fluoro- fluorene; fluorine

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Medical definitions for fluor

fluor-

pref.

Variant offluoro-