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Chlorine vs Fluoride - What's the difference?

chlorine | fluoride |

As nouns the difference between chlorine and fluoride

is that chlorine is a toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol cl) with an atomic number of 17 while fluoride is .

chlorine

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia chlorine)
  • A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element (symbol Cl) with an atomic number of 17.
  • Derived terms

    * antichlor, antichlore * antichlorine * chlor-, chloro- * chloral * chlorane * chloric * chloride * chlorinate * chlorination * * * * chlorine dioxide * chlorine fluoride * chlorine monofluoride * chlorine oxide * chlorine pentafluoride * chlorine trifluoride * chlorine water * chloriniferous * chlorinise, chlorinize * chlorinous * chlorite * chloroid * chlorous * chloruret * dichlorine * organochlorine

    Synonyms

    * when used as a food additive

    See also

    * carnallite * halite * sylvite

    fluoride

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt of hydrofluoric acid; for example, potassium fluoride.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , date = 2004-08-08 , author = Mike Adams , title = Fluoride conference reveals fraudulent science behind mass fluoridation; fluoride policy is a public fraud , site = naturalnews.com , url = http://www.naturalnews.com/001807.html , accessdate = 2013-09-06 }}
    Fluorosilicic acid is not fluoride , it is something very different, and it strikes me as downright bizarre that it is perfectly legal to dump this toxic waste product into the rivers and streams of America as long as it passes through the bodies of human beings first. In other words, it's illegal to take a bucket of fluorosilicic acid and dump it into a stream, but it is perfectly legal to dump it into the bodies of human beings, whose waste products will subsequently enter those same streams and rivers.
  • (chemistry) A binary compound of fluorine and another element or radical.
  • Derived terms

    *actinium fluoride *aluminium fluoride *ammonium fluoride *argentous fluoride *berkelium fluoride *beryllium fluoride *borofluoride *cadmium fluoride *caesium fluoride, cesium fluoride *calcium fluoride *chlorine fluoride *difluoride *ferric fluoride *fluoridation *fluoridisation, fluoridization *heptafluoride *hexafluoride *krypton fluoride *lithium fluoride *magnesium fluoride *monofluoride *nitrosyl fluoride *nitryl fluoride *oxygen fluoride *pentafluoride *polyvinyl fluoride *polyvinylidene fluoride *potassium fluoride *potassium zirconium fluoride *radium fluoride *radon fluoride *scandium fluoride *silver fluoride *sodium aluminium fluoride *sodium fluoride *sulfuryl fluoride, sulphuryl fluoride *tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride *tetrafluoride *thionyl fluoride *trifluoride *tungsten fluoride *uranium hexafluoride *yttrium fluoride *yttrium lithium fluoride