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/ˈflʊɚˌaɪt/ · noun
(mineralogy) A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid..
Near-synonym: calcium fluoride
Fluorite is an important natural resource of Thailand.
Use fluorite when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fluorite means (mineralogy) A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid..
Common synonyms include fluor, fluorspar, calcium fluoride.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: calcium fluoride
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