What's the difference between fluoride and fluorine?

Fluoride


Definition:

  • (n.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
  • (2) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (3) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
  • (4) If salt fluoridation could also be generalized, caries levels could be reduced to a fraction of their initial values.
  • (5) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.
  • (6) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
  • (7) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
  • (8) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
  • (9) In spite of low fluoride content in their water supply, the findings revealed a generally low prevalence of caries experience (DMFT 1.26).
  • (10) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
  • (11) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
  • (12) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (13) This study shows a relatively mild level of dental fluorosis in a sample of children from a non-fluoridated area.
  • (14) The deacetylation step is catalysed by an acetyl hydrolase sensitive to the serine-hydrolase inhibitor PMSF (phenylmethanesulphonyl fluoride) [Touqui, Jacquemin, Dumarey & Vargaftig (1985) Biochim.
  • (15) The average percentages of distribution of SMFA (organic fluoride) in plasma, liver, and kidneys were 7.05, 5.07 and 1.68, respectively.
  • (16) There is no in vivo evidence that fluoride affects human cellular enzyme activities.
  • (17) The conclusions were: (1) Lesions on the occlusal tended to be deeper than those on the root surfaces at four weeks but not at two weeks; and (2) the high-fluoride gel was more protective than the low-fluoride remineralizing solution at both time periods on the occlusal but not on the root surface.
  • (18) The salivary clearance of sugar and fluoride is influenced by several physiological factors not yet fully investigated or understood.
  • (19) Prolonged coating duration from 24 hours to 1 week did not increase uptake and penetration of fluoride from both varnishes.
  • (20) Where no fluoride was taken zero dmf scores were 41-69 per cent.

Fluorine


Definition:

  • (n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fluorination with [18F]acetylhypofluorite yields 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa with 95% radiochemical purity; fluorination of the same substrate with [18F]F2 yields a mixture of all three structural isomers in a ratio of 70:16:14 for 6-, 5-, and 2-fluoro compounds.
  • (2) Recent studies with fluorine-18 (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose suggest inhomogeneity of myocardial glucose metabolism in the normal human heart, which may relate to substrate availability.
  • (3) In vitro sensitizing activities were correlated to the promotion efficiency of radiolytic hydroxylation of thymine to thymine glycol and to the one-electron reduction potential of a variety of fluorinated and non-fluorinated nitroazole derivatives.
  • (4) The new fluorinated adenine analog, fludarabine, has been tested for efficacy in many tumor types over the past ten years.
  • (5) The campaign’s focus was the damage to the ozone layer caused by fluorinated gases, such as HFCs.
  • (6) After administration of niflumic acid, flufenamic and antrafenine, the urinary elimination of ionized fluorine increase in all the subjects.
  • (7) The introduction of fluorines at C-24 and extension of the sterol side chain at C-26 and C-27 by methylene groups results in vitamin D analogues that have biological activity in vivo similar to those of the respective nonfluorinated natural sterols.
  • (8) Early prenatal suppression of the fetal adrenal cortex with fluorinated corticosteroids can prevent virilization of female fetuses with 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
  • (9) The fluorine modification of nitroazole sensitizers could enhance both the absolute activity and the tumor affinity.
  • (10) Haemophilus influenzae strains with varied ampicillin resistance and beta-lactamase production patterns were tested against three investigational fluorinated quinolones (CI-960, fleroxacin, temafloxacin) using Haemophilus Test Medium (HTM) and National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) methods.
  • (11) It has been found that workers in factories who have not been considered as subjected to fluorine hazard and therefore have not been controlled had significantly elevated urinary fluoride levels.
  • (12) (19)F-Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of specifically fluorinated hemoglobin derivatives have been used to determine the apparent pK(a) of the histidine beta146 imidazole in deoxyhemoglobin.
  • (13) To measure [Ca2+]i, fluorine NMR spectra were acquired in a separate group of hearts loaded with the Ca2+ indicator 5F-BAPTA [5,5'-difluoro derivative of 1,2-bis-(o-aminophenoxy)ethane- N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid].
  • (14) This is due to the influence of the fluorine substituent(s) on the basicity of the amine function proximal to the fluoromethylene group, this effect being amplified by geminal disubstitution.
  • (15) In intact cells of all 5-FC-susceptible strains the metabolism of 5-FU progressed to the formation of other fluorinated derivatives which were visualized as a single, broad resonance band at a lower field with respect to 5-FC and 5-FU.
  • (16) A major advance in antimicrobial chemotherapy was the synthesis of newer quinolones containing at least 1 fluorine atom and a piperazinyl group.
  • (17) We studied the relationship between antitumor efficacy of UFT, which is a most widely used drug among fluorinated pyrimidines recently, and its effect on the content and the inhibition rate of thymidylate synthase (TS) in 15 human tumor xenografts derived from stomach, colon, breast and pancreatic cancer patients.
  • (18) Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance images of rabbit hearts have been obtained with the administration of a fluorinated contrast compound.
  • (19) 31P NMR measurements of the magnesium-dependent shift between alpha- and beta-phosphates of ATP demonstrate that there is no measurable lowering of Mgi during loading with fluorinated o-aminophenol-N,N,O-triacetate.
  • (20) Thus, for fluoroanilines with a fluorine substituent at the para position bioactivation to the reactive benzoquinoneimine can be a direct result of the cytochrome P-450 dependent conversion.