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defluorinate

defluorinate verb: to remove or reduce fluorine or fluoride.

Verb

defluorinate (third-person singular simple present defluorinates, present participle defluorinating, simple past and past participle defluorinated)

  1. to remove or reduce fluorine or fluoride
    • Attempts to fuse and defluorinate rock phosphate by feeding the finely ground material into the flame of a blast lamp were not successful.

Forms of defluorinate

third-person singular presentdefluorinates
present participledefluorinating
past participledefluorinated
pastdefluorinated
alternative formde-fluorinate

Origin of defluorinate

From de- + fluorinate.

Questions about defluorinate

What does defluorinate mean?
Defluorinate means to remove or reduce fluorine or fluoride.
What part of speech is defluorinate?
Defluorinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of defluorinate?
The past tense of defluorinate is defluorinated.

Words near defluorinate in the dictionary

  1. defluidization
  2. defluidize
  3. defluoridated
  4. defluoridation
  5. defluoridations
  6. defluorinate
  7. defluorinated
  8. defluorinates
  9. defluorinating
  10. defluorination
  11. defluorinative

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