Hydrogen Fluoride Definition

noun
A colorless, fuming corrosive liquid or a highly soluble corrosive gas, HF, that is extremely toxic, used in the manufacture of hydrofluoric acid, as a reagent, catalyst, and fluorinating agent, and in the refining of uranium and the preparation of many fluorine compounds.
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Hydrogen Fluoride Sentence Examples

  • It may be obtained crystalline by fusing the anhydrous chloride with a large excess of potassium hydrogen fluoride or by heating the amorphous variety to redness with an excess of an alkaline chloride.

  • Even the strongest laboratory oxidizing agents are unable to oxidize hydrogen fluoride.

  • Liquid hydrogen fluoride is also a very strong acid for the same reason.

  • In those cases, all you get produced are the steamy fumes of the hydrogen halide - hydrogen fluoride or hydrogen chloride.

  • That's equally true for hydrogen fluoride or hydrogen iodide.

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