difluoride
Noun
Meaning
difluoride (plural difluorides)
(chemistry) any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule
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Certain selenium fluorides, such as selenium difluoride, have been produced in small amounts.
Beryllium difluoride is very soluble in water, citation unlike the other alkaline earths.
Lead tetrafluoride, a yellow crystalline powder, is stable, but less stable than the difluoride.
Of the dihalides, difluoride is not known, dichloride is brown, dibromide is black, and diiodide is blue.
The polytrioxophosphate Pa(PO 3 ) 4 can be produced by reacting difluoride sulfate PaF 2 SO 4 with phosphoric acid (H 3 PO 4 ) under inert gas atmosphere.