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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless, fuming, corrosive, dangerously poisonous aqueous solution of hydrogen fluoride, HF, used to etch or polish glass, pickle certain metals, and clean masonry.
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- noun chemistry A
solution ofhydrogen fluoride , HF, inwater ; it is aweak but verycorrosive acid, used in theproduction offluorine compounds , and inmetallurgy .
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- noun a weak poisonous liquid acid; formed by solution of hydrogen fluoride in water
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