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fluorites

fluorites is the plural of fluorite.

Meaning of fluorite

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

  1. A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.
    • Near-synonym: calcium fluoride

Questions about fluorites

What is fluorites the plural of?
Fluorites is the plural of fluorite.

Words near fluorites in the dictionary

  1. fluorinelike
  2. fluorines
  3. fluorinous
  4. fluorins
  5. fluorite
  6. fluorites
  7. fluoritization
  8. fluoritized
  9. fluormeter
  10. fluormeters
  11. fluornatromicrolite

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