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Hydrofluoric acid Moderate

Origin: Greek prefix hydro-

Hydrofluoric acid has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water

2

A solution of hydrogen fluoride, HF, in water; it is a weak but very corrosive acid, used in the production of fluorine compounds, and in metallurgy.

See Also
compound hydrogen fluoride fluoric corrosive fluorite metallurgy hydrofluorination water
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
acid
Rhyming Words
cid acid scid picid arcid alcid mucid lucid ficid lycid coccid esocid odacid marcid muscid raucid chacid viscid caecid diacid
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