What's the difference between fluoride and fluorite?

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.

Fluorite


Definition:

  • (n.) Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Animal experiments showed that calcium fluorite can induce only a foreign body reaction in the lungs; the fibrous nodular lesions induced by the fluorite mine dust are due mainly to its silica component.
  • (2) On the basis of the investigations a complex filter made of silver plated minerals--dolomite and fluorite--has been developed.
  • (3) NMR analysis showed FAP or FHAP as a reaction product of fluoride uptake under all conditions, regardless of whether CaF2 was formed, unambiguously demonstrating fluorite as an additive rather than substitute form of F reactivity.
  • (4) The occurrence of fluorite in mysid statoliths confirms the earlier interpretations based on insufficient documentation.
  • (5) It was also demonstrated that having engulfed calcium fluorite, silica, or fluorite mine mixed dust, PAMs release an elastase-active substance.
  • (6) Use of acetyl hypo[18F]fluorite gives [18F]-4 in 60 min in 20-42% radiochemical yield.
  • (7) The environmental survey included measurements of the dust respirable fraction and fluorite concentration in the air.
  • (8) The authors suggest that the emphysematous lesion seen in autopsy material of pneumoconiosis of fluorite mine workers may be caused by calcium fluorite and silica.
  • (9) A compact autosynthesizer was developed and used successfully for the production of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose [18FDG] from gaseous acetyl hypo[18F]fluorite.
  • (10) X-ray diffraction patterns show that the statoliths of marine mysid crustaceans are composed of fluorite, and that this mineral is also a principal phase of the gizzard plates of some tectibranch gastropods.
  • (11) At pH's less than 5.0 to 6.0 the solubility product of fluorite, and not that of fluorapatite, is the governing principle under the experimental conditions used.
  • (12) It was demonstrated that either silica or the mixed dust of a fluorite mine can stimulate pulmonary alveolar macrophages (PAMs) to release fibrogenetic factors in vitro, but calcium fluorite cannot.
  • (13) Furthermore, fluorite (CaF2) makes the slag more fluid.
  • (14) The authors investigated the influence of working conditions--with particular reference to dust and fluorite pollution--on the epidemiology of chronic bronchitis in 197 subjects working in a fertilizer producing plant in Krakow (Poland).
  • (15) The pathogenicity of mixed dust from a fluorite mine was studied by animal experiments and in vitro tests.
  • (16) The unit has been similarly configured and programmed to synthesize 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-mannose (48% EOB), 3-(2'-[18F]fluoroethyl)spiperone (29% EOB), and [18F]fluoroacetate (66% EOB) from aqueous [18F]-fluoride ion, and 2-[18F]FDG from gaseous acetyl hypo[18F]fluorite (20% EOB).
  • (17) All sample fumes from low hydrogen welding in several atmospheric conditions contained fluorite (CaF2).