hexafluoride
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hexafluoride
Example Sentences
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Tuesday morning, the maker of refrigerants and uranium hexafluoride, an intermediate product for nuclear fuel, reported External link first-quarter earnings per share of 63 cents from sales of $991 million.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
But excessive tonnages of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride are changing Earth’s climate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
"If this uranium hexafluoride comes in contact with moisture in the air, it's really quite corrosive and nasty because it can form this very, very strong acid," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
In fact, scientists have been doing studies like this since the 1960s, releasing tracers such as zinc sulfide powder or sulfur hexafluoride gas into the stratosphere to study air currents.
From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023
The main obstacle for the diffusion process being developed by Urey was its reliance on uranium hexafluoride gas, the detestable “hex,” which lived up to its nickname by severely corroding every permeable barrier Urey tried.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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