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fluorinating

fluorinating is the present participle and gerund of fluorinate.

Meaning of fluorinate

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.

Questions about fluorinating

What is fluorinating the present participle and gerund of?
Fluorinating is the present participle and gerund of fluorinate.

Words near fluorinating in the dictionary

  1. fluorinase
  2. fluorinases
  3. fluorinate
  4. fluorinated
  5. fluorinates
  6. fluorinating
  7. fluorination
  8. fluorinations
  9. fluorinator
  10. fluorinators
  11. fluorine

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