fluorite

See also: Fluorite

English

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

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

Chinese:
Mandarin: 萤石 (zh) (yíngshí)、螢石 (zh) (yíngshí)、氟石 (zh) (fúshí)
Estonian: fluoriit
Finnish: fluoriitti
French: fluorite (fr) f
German: Fluorit m
Hungarian: fluorit (hu)
Italian: fluorite f

Japanese: 蛍石 (ほたるいし, hotaruishi)
Latin: murra (la) f
Polish: fluoryt (pl) m
Portuguese: fluorita f
Romanian: fluorit m
Russian: флюори́т (ru) m (fljuorít)
Spanish: fluorita f, fluorina f

See also

blue John

Further reading

“Fluorite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
“fluorite”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

Italian

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

fluorite

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