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

Solstice also provides uranium hexafluoride conversion and related services to utilities operating nuclear power plants.

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Working with a partner, General Atomics, it is the only provider of uranium hexafluoride in the U.S.

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"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.

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"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.

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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.

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