hexafluoride

[hek-suh-floor-ahyd, -flawr-, -flohr-]

noun

1. a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hexafluoride¹

hexa- + fluoride

Example Sentences

"If there was an incident and the centrifuges were to release the uranium hexafluoride, the gas contained within the centrifuges, then it would be a really severe chemical incident," said Prof Simon Middleburgh, a nuclear materials scientist, from Bangor University.

From BBC

"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

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

It said the worker died from a "mechanical injury" caused by a breach in a container of uranium hexafluoride, a chemical compound used in uranium enrichment.

From Reuters

It is called sulfur hexafluoride, or SF6.

From Scientific American