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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of perfluorinate form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Thoroughly fluorinated: reacted with fluorine such that many hydrogen atoms have been replaced with fluorine. not-comparable

Etymology

By surface analysis, perfluorinate + -ed, or, by surface analysis, per- + fluorinated.

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