fluorinate
verb
fluorinate is a verb meaning “To introduce fluorine into a compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-I-N-A-T-E.
What does fluorinate mean?
verb
- 1
To introduce fluorine into a compound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluorinate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-fluorinate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluorinate
- fluorinates present, singular, he/she/it
- fluorinating participle, present
- fluorinated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fluorinate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to introduce fluorine:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | fluorieren |
| Portuguese | fluorar |
| Spanish | fluorar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.