trifluoride
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trifluoride
Example Sentences
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One example is nitrogen trifluoride, a greenhouse gas that is 16,100 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping atmospheric heat.
From The Verge • Dec. 5, 2019
For example, in the Lewis structures of beryllium dihydride, BeH2, and boron trifluoride, BF3, the beryllium and boron atoms each have only four and six electrons, respectively.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The boron atom in boron trifluoride, BF3, has only six electrons in its valence shell.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Thanks to a note from reader Robert L., I can report that there is indeed such a reagent: chlorine trifluoride.
From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2013
Boric anhydride is raised to a most vivid incandescence by fluorine, the experiment being rendered very beautiful by the abundant white fumes of the trifluoride which are liberated.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
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