zirconifluoride

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noun

Any compound containing the radical ZrF₆.

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Meanings

nounzirconifluoride (plural zirconifluorides)

plural zirconifluorides · alternative zirconofluoride

  1. chemistryAny compound containing the radical ZrF₆.

    This substance is potassium zirconifluoride, to which there correspond isomorphous silicifluorides, titanifluorides, and stannifluorides.

    1917, Robert Martin Caven, Carbon and Its Allies, page 265
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    The tendency to form the complex zirconifluoride ion is so strong that the acidified solution of the zirconium salt dissolves some of the calcium fluoride by withdrawal of fluoride ions […]

    1954, Gaston Charlot, Qualitative Inorganic Analysis, page 80
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