tetrafluoride
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tetrafluoride
Example Sentences
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It is possible to prepare silicon tetrafluoride by the reaction of silicon dioxide with hydrofluoric acid:
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Xenon tetrafluoride, XeF4, and xenon hexafluoride, XeF6, are prepared in an analogous manner, with a stoichiometric amount of fluorine and an excess of fluorine, respectively.
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Except for silicon tetrafluoride, silicon halides are extremely sensitive to water.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
It's what nuclear chemists call uranium tetrafluoride, a grainy substance that can be used to make fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a bomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chloroform.—When chloroform is saturated with fluorine, and subsequently boiled, carbon tetrafluoride, hydrofluoric acid and chlorine are evolved.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
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