fluoride
(noun) a salt of hydrofluoric acid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fluoride (plural fluorides)
(chemistry) Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.
(chemistry) A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical.
Source: Wiktionary
Flu"or*ide ( or ; 104), n. Etym: [Cf. F. fluoride.] (Chem.)
Definition: A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical. Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
