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Fluorspar

Definition: Fluorspar

Fluorspar

Noun

1. A soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Fluorspar

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Chemistry

Natural calcium fluoride, used in the manufacture of hydrofluoric acid and as a flux for metallurgical purposes. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

See:fluorite. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Fluorspar

Synonyms: fluor (n), fluorite (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: fluorite (european union, chemistry).

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Crosswords: Fluorspar

Specialty definitions using "fluorspar": FIRST HELPER ♦ Girond process ♦ melter assistant ♦ open-hearth-furnace operator, open-hearth-furnace-operator helper, OXYGEN-FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ SECOND HELPER, sparry lode. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fluorspar

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References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe in Europe (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Chemical and Fertilizer Mineral Mining, Nec Inclu Barite, Fluorspar, Rock Salt, and Sulfer [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Network Flow Model Analysis of the Impact of Chlorofluorocarbon Phaseout on Acid-Grade Fluorspar (Information Circular) (reference)

  • Structure of the Reelfoot-Rough Creek Rift System, Fluorspar Area Fault Complex and Hicks Dome, Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky: New constrain (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Quartz, Mica, Felspar, Fluorspar, Cryolithe, and Chiolithe in Africa [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fluorspar

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Economic History

Mongolia

Natural resources: Coal, copper, molybdenum, iron, phosphates, tin, nickel, zinc, wolfram, fluorspar, gold, uranium, petroleum. (references)

Kenya

Trade (2000): Exports--$1.8 billion: tea, coffee, horticultural products, petroleum products, cement, pyrethrum, soda ash, sisal, hides and skins, fluorspar. (references)

South Africa

These include deposits containing metals and industrial minerals such as gold, platinum group metals (PGMs), coal, diamonds, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium, phosphates, iron, zirconium, zinc, aluminum-silicates, uranium, vermiculite, asbestos and fluorspar, to name but a few. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fluorspar

"Fluorspar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fluorspar" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Fluorspar

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fluorspar

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Fluorspar

Language Translations for "fluorspar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fluorit (fluorite). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الفلورسبار. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

флуорит (fluor, fluorite). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

萤石. (various references)

   

Danish

  

flusspat (fluorite). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

fluoriet (fluorite), vloeispaat (fluorite). (various references)

   

French

  

spath fluor (fluorite, fluor-spar), fluorine (fluorite). (various references)

   

German

  

Flussspat (fluorite). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φθορίτης (fluorite, fluor-spar), αργυραδάμας (fluorite). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fluorina (fluorite), spatofluoro (fluorite). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

螢石 (fluorite). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ほたるいし (fluorite), けいせき (evidence, fluorite, traces). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uorsparflay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fluorina (fluorite), espatoflúor (fluorite). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плавиковый шпат (fluorite). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

fluorit (fluorite, spar). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fluorita (fluorite), fluorina (fluorite), espato flúor (fluorite). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flusspat (fluorite), fluorit. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kalsiyum floriti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fluorspar

Derivations

Words beginning with "fluorspar": fluorspars. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fluorspar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flourspar, fluorospar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fluorspar"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "fluorspar" (pronounced fluh"rspÄ'r or flô"rspÄ'r)
4-s p Ä' rfeldspar.
4-s p Ä' rfeldspar.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fluorspar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-l-o-p-r-r-s-u"

-1 letter: parlours, sporular.

-2 letters: larrups, parlors, parlour, parlous, uproars.

-3 letters: floras, flours, fluors, furors, larrup, parlor, parols, parous, polars, pulsar, safrol, sapour, sporal, uproar, upsoar.

-4 letters: afoul, farls, faros, flaps, flops, flora, flour, fluor, foals, fouls, fours, fraps, furls, furor, loafs, loups, lours, opals, orals, parol, parrs, polar, poufs, pours, praos, praus, proas, profs, purls.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-l-o-p-r-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: fluorspars.

 

+4 letters: preformulates.

 

+5 letters: fluorographies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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