fluor

[floo-awr, -er]

noun

Mineralogy.

1. fluorite.

fluor-

¹

combining form

1. a variant of fluoro-

   fluorene

   fluorine

fluor

²

/ ˈfluːɔː /

noun

1. another name for fluorspar

Word History and Origins

Origin of fluor-¹

First recorded in 1615–25, fluor is from the Latin word fluor a flowing; so called from its use as a flux

Word History and Origins

Origin of fluor-¹

C17: from Latin: a flowing; so called from its use as a metallurgical flux

Example Sentences

Those funds will flow to companies like Honeywell, Bechtel, Jacobs Engineering and Fluor that help run nuclear labs and nuclear production sites, as well as educational institutions like the University of Tennessee, Texas A&M and the University of California at Berkeley, which help manage nuclear weapons labs or nuclear production sites.

From Salon

As a teen he studied art at the Chouinard Art Institute in L.A.’s Westlake neighborhood and found work in World War II as a photographer and designer of sales materials and trade show exhibits for Fluor Corp., an oil and gas engineering and construction firm.

From Los Angeles Times

The team had just released research detailing the novel chemistry they used to expand the Janelia Fluor dye palette.

From Science Daily

As the world shut down, Grimm and Lavis planned new chemistry -- including completely novel chemical reactions -- that sought to rationally incorporate the lessons learned from the Janelia Fluor dyes into other classic but suboptimal rhodamines.

From Science Daily

The result was the start of what would become the now ubiquitous and indispensable Janelia Fluor dyes, bright, photostable, cell-permeable fluorescent probes that allow biologists to see the molecules inside cells.

From Science Daily