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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any anion in which oxygen atoms of a tantalate anion have been formally replaced by fluorine, but especially TaF₇²⁻, the heptafluorotantalate anion; any salt containing such an anion

Etymology

From fluoro- + tantalate.

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