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Definition of Hydrofluoric acid
1. Noun. A weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water.
Definition of Hydrofluoric acid
1. Noun. (chemistry) 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. ¹
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Medical Definition of Hydrofluoric acid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrofluoric Acid
Literary usage of Hydrofluoric acid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analytical Chemistry by Frederick Pearson Treadwell (1921)
"hydrofluoric acid occurs in nature only in the form of fluorides, ... Hydrofluoric
acid is obtained by decomposing a fluoride with concentrated sulfuric ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"When pure hydrofluoric acid became a commercial article, the above method gave
place in large measure to one depending on the decomposition of the silicate ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1869)
"A. Anhydrous hydrofluoric acid, This paper contains a full description of the
leading physical and chemical properties of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid, ..."
4. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1883)
"hydrofluoric acid is a colorless corrosive gas, which fames in the air, ...
Aqueous hydrofluoric acid is distinguished from all other acids by the property ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"hydrofluoric acid IN PHTHISIS. In a Hungarian medical journal, DR. GAGER has
published an account of seventeen cases of phthisis in which he employed the ..."
6. A Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis: Or, The Quantitative by Francis Sutton (1900)
"COMMERCIAL hydrofluoric acid, which is now a not inconsiderable article of commerce,
... It generally contains in addition to hydrofluoric acid, ..."
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