fluorite

fluorite

See also: Fluorite

English

A deep green isolated fluorite crystal.

Etymology

fluor +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflʊɚˌaɪt/, /ˈflɔɹˌait/

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

1. (mineralogy) A widely occurring mineral (calcium fluoride), of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.

   Fluorite is the main natural resource of Thailand.

Synonyms

• calcium fluoride
• Derbyshire spar
• fluor
• fluorspar

Translations

mineral

Catalan: fluorita f Chinese: Mandarin: 螢石／萤石 (zh) (yíngshí), 氟石 (zh) (fúshí) Danish: fluorit c, flusspat c Estonian: fluoriit Finnish: fluoriitti French: fluorite (fr) f, fluorine (fr) f Galician: fluorita f German: Fluorit m Hungarian: fluorit (hu) Italian: fluorite f Japanese: 蛍石 (ほたるいし, hotaruishi) Kazakh: флюорит (flüorit) Kyrgyz: флюорит (flyuorit) Latin: murra (la) f Polish: fluoryt (pl) m Portuguese: fluorita f Romanian: fluorit m Russian: флюори́т (ru) m (fljuorít) Spanish: fluorita (es) f, fluorina f

See also

• blue John

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Fluorite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fluorite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

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Italian

Etymology

From fluoro +‎ -ite.

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

1. fluorite

Further reading

• fluorite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• fluiterò