Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.
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Fluorine
//ˈflʊ(ə)ɹˌin/
Synonyms for "fluorine" (9 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
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7 entriesTranslations
107 translations across 93 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- fluoor noun (chemical element)
Albanian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Arabic
1 entries- فُلُور noun (chemical element)
Armenian
1 entries- ֆտոր noun (chemical element)
Asturian
1 entries- flúor noun (chemical element)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- flüor noun (chemical element)
Basque
1 entries- fluoroa noun (chemical element)
Belarusian
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Bengali
1 entries- ফ্লুরিন noun (chemical element)
Breton
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Bulgarian
1 entries- флуо́р noun (chemical element)
Catalan
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 氟 noun (chemical element)
Chuvash
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Cornish
1 entries- fluorin noun (chemical element)
Corsican
1 entries- fluoru noun (chemical element)
Czech
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Danish
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Dutch
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Esperanto
1 entries- fluoro noun (chemical element)
Estonian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Farefare
1 entries- fulu-ya-walʋm noun (chemical element)
Faroese
1 entries- flúr noun (chemical element)
Finnish
1 entries- fluori noun (chemical element)
French
2 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
- phthore noun (chemical element)
Friulian
1 entries- fluôr noun (chemical element)
Galician
1 entries- flúor noun (chemical element)
Georgian
1 entries- ფთორი noun (chemical element)
German
1 entries- Fluor noun (chemical element)
Greek
1 entries- φθόριο noun (chemical element)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- fliyò noun (chemical element)
Hawaiian
1 entries- fluorine noun (chemical element)
Hebrew
1 entries- פלואור noun (chemical element)
Hindi
1 entries- तरस्विनी noun (chemical element)
Hungarian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Icelandic
2 entries- flúor noun (chemical element)
- flúr noun (chemical element)
Ido
1 entries- fluoro noun (chemical element)
Indonesian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Interlingua
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Irish
1 entries- fluairín noun (chemical element)
Italian
1 entries- fluoro noun (chemical element)
Japanese
4 entries- フッソ noun (chemical element)
- フッ素 noun (chemical element)
- 弗素 noun (chemical element)
- 氟素 noun (chemical element)
Kannada
1 entries- ಫ್ಲೂರೀನ್ noun (chemical element)
Kashubian
1 entries- fluòr noun (chemical element)
Kazakh
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Khmer
1 entries- ភ្លុយអរ noun (chemical element)
Korean
3 entries- 불소 noun (chemical element)
- 플루오르 noun (chemical element)
- 플루오린 noun (chemical element)
Latin
1 entries- fluorum noun (chemical element)
Latvian
1 entries- fluors noun (chemical element)
Lingala
1 entries- folina class 9a/10a noun (chemical element)
Lithuanian
1 entries- fluoras noun (chemical element)
Low German
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Fluor noun (chemical element)
Macedonian
1 entries- флуор noun (chemical element)
Malay
1 entries- fluorin noun (chemical element)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഫ്ലൂറിൻ noun (chemical element)
Maltese
1 entries- fluworu noun (chemical element)
Manx
1 entries- flooareen noun (chemical element)
Marathi
1 entries- फ्लोरिन noun (chemical element)
Mongolian
4 entries- флор noun (chemical element)
- фтор noun (chemical element)
- ᠹᠯᠣᠷ noun (chemical element)
- ᠹᠲ᠋ᠣᠷ noun (chemical element)
Māori
1 entries- pūkōwhai noun (chemical element)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Occitan
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- فلعور noun (chemical element)
Persian
1 entries- فلوئور noun (chemical element)
Polish
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Portuguese
1 entries- flúor noun (chemical element)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਫਲੋਰੀਨ noun (chemical element)
Quechua
1 entries- flur noun (chemical element)
Romanian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Russian
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Santali
1 entries- ᱯᱷᱞᱚᱨᱤᱱ noun (chemical element)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- fluorain noun (chemical element)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- flȕōr noun (chemical element)
- флу̏о̄р noun (chemical element)
Sicilian
1 entries- fluoru noun (chemical element)
Slovak
1 entries- fluór noun (chemical element)
Slovene
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Spanish
1 entries- flúor noun (chemical element)
Swahili
1 entries- florini noun (chemical element)
Swedish
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Tajik
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Tamil
3 entries- ஃவுளூரின் noun (chemical element)
- புளோரின் noun (chemical element)
- வினைவியம் noun (chemical element)
Thai
1 entries- ฟลูออรีน noun (chemical element)
Turkish
1 entries- flor noun (chemical element)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фтор noun (chemical element)
Urdu
1 entries- فلورین noun (chemical element)
Uzbek
2 entries- ftor noun (chemical element)
- фтор noun (chemical element)
Vietnamese
1 entries- flo noun (chemical element)
Volapük
1 entries- fluorin noun (chemical element)
Welsh
1 entries- fflworin noun (chemical element)
West-Frisian
1 entries- fluor noun (chemical element)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine are halogens.
Source: tatoeba (1555641)
In their analysis of fast food packaging, researchers said 20 percent of paperboard samples, including boxes for french fries and pizza, contained fluorine.
Source: tatoeba (11161188)
Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine are diatomic elements.
Source: tatoeba (13595171)
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