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🧪 A chemical compound ⚗️ With two fluorines
difluoride

difluoride

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A chemical compound with two fluorine atoms attached to another element
  • noun
  • /ˌdaɪˈflɔːraɪd/
  • Specialized
: difluoruro
  • One more thing if you've got, if you've got stoichiometry like this, this is a difluoride of magnesium.

Examples

  • I've been running some tests on a new battery source, xenon difluoride.

    Project Almanac (2015)

  • Dioxygen difluoride is known for being one of the most reactive compounds containing fluorine.

  • Shoot, is that my xenon difluoride?

    Project Almanac (2015)

  • You need a binder such as Poly vinyl difluoride to hold together this powder of the redox material and a connectivity aid like carbon black.

  • Such solvents would destroy most conventional ultrafiltration membranes, such as polysulfone and polyvinylidene difluoride.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The chemist demonstrated how to create a difluoride by bonding two fluorine atoms to another element.

  • In the lab, we synthesized a new difluoride that showed promising results in our tests.

Surface Forms

difluoride singular
difluorides plural

Morphology

difluoride = fluoride (transparent) = di + fluoride

Follows standard chemical nomenclature: 'di-' indicates two and 'fluoride' names the fluorine-containing moiety, so the noun is compositional.

Etymology

Difluoride comes from the prefix di- meaning 'two' and fluoride, the name of the element fluorine. So a difluoride is a compound in which another element is attached to two fluorine atoms.