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fluorinate

fluorinate verb: to introduce fluorine into a compound.

Verb

fluorinate (third-person singular simple present fluorinates, present participle fluorinating, simple past and past participle fluorinated)

  1. (transitive) To introduce fluorine into a compound.

Forms of fluorinate

third-person singular presentfluorinates
present participlefluorinating
past participlefluorinated
pastfluorinated

Origin of fluorinate

From fluorine + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from fluorinate

Questions about fluorinate

What does fluorinate mean?
Fluorinate means to introduce fluorine into a compound.
What part of speech is fluorinate?
Fluorinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of fluorinate?
The past tense of fluorinate is fluorinated.

Words near fluorinate in the dictionary

  1. fluorimetries
  2. fluorimetry
  3. fluorin
  4. fluorinase
  5. fluorinases
  6. fluorinate
  7. fluorinated
  8. fluorinates
  9. fluorinating
  10. fluorination
  11. fluorinations

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