1660s, an old chemistry term for "minerals which were readily fusible and useful as fluxes in smelting" [Flood], from Latin fluor, originally meaning "a flowing, flow" (see fluent), said to be from a translation of the German miners' name, flusse. Since 1771 applied to minerals containing fluorine, especially calcium fluoride (fluorspar or fluorite).
实用例句
1. FZB series of self - suction centrifugal pumps, its overflow part is made of Fluor plastic alloy.
FZB系列自吸离心泵, 过流部件均采用氟塑料合金制造.
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