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HYDROFLUORIC ACID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrofluoric acid mean?
• HYDROFLUORIC ACID (noun)
The noun HYDROFLUORIC ACID has 1 sense:
1. a weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water
Familiarity information: HYDROFLUORIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hydrofluoric acid" is a kind of...):
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
Context examples
A white colored, crystalline, inorganic compound that emits toxic fumes of beryllium oxides, hydrofluoric acid and other fluorinated compounds upon heating.
(Beryllium Fluoride, NCI Thesaurus)
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