trifluoride
- noun
- /ˌtraɪˈfluəˌraɪd/
- Specialized
:
trifluoruro
- The chemical compound boron trifluoride is often utilized in organic synthesis.
- nitrogen trifluoride
Examples
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I have no idea what the biological implications of nitrogen trifluoride are, but I would rather someone else perform the experiments.
Fiction book (1997) -
We are leaning out from a wall almost half a kilometer above a bridge about half a kilometer above a pool of cryogenic nitrogen trifluoride, talking about how the various things that hold our ropes to said wall may give way at any time.
Fiction book (1997) -
We hang from the wall and gaze into the utterly still pool of nitrogen trifluoride in the circles of our helmet lamps below us.
Fiction book (1997) -
Nitrogen trifluoride is used as an etching gas in the production of semiconductors.
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Researchers conducted a study on the properties of phosphorus trifluoride.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
trifluoride = fluoride (transparent) = tri + fluor + ide
The meaning is directly derived from the prefix 'tri-' (three) added to 'fluoride' (a compound containing fluorine), yielding a compound with three fluorine atoms.
Etymology
Trifluoride breaks into tri- meaning 'three', as in triangle or tricycle, and -fluoride from fluorine, whose name comes from a word meaning 'to flow' like fluid. So a trifluoride is a compound with 'three' fluorine atoms attached to another element.
