fluorination
noun
fluorination is a noun meaning “The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-O-R-I-N-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluorination is fluorinations.
What does fluorination mean?
noun
- 1
The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fluorination?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-fluorination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fluorination
- fluorinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fluorination?
Fluorination appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).