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What Is Fluoride Ion

FLUORIDE ION: As you may have had difficulty in finding a definition for the term “fluoride ion”, as I did, I have posted this page to help those “non-chemist’s” as is the case with myself. In order to attempt putting this definition in a way that I can understand, my hope is that it helps those readers whose chemistry background is at the stage of my own.

The term and definition belongs singularly, to the word “ion”, which really makes, in this case, the term.. “Fluoride Ion” equivalent to the word “Fluoride”, or, for all practical purposes, “Fluoride” = “Fluoride Ion”.. see below..

an Ion is in this case “A binary compound of fluorine“.
Fluorine combined with another element.
Example: The element Fluorine, a pale yellow gas, combined with another element.. H2o.. or (water) becomes a “Fluoride Ion” the result being “Fluoridated Water”
So, as in with water the same is true with “toothpaste” in that 0.24% Sodium Fluoride w/v 0.14% Fluoride ion.. translates to: 0.24% Sodium Fluoride with 0.14% of that volume is Fluoride ie Fluorine ion.. Fluorine which has combined with another element causing it to have lost or gained one or more electrons in order to make it more stable, or, less reactive.. “managable”.

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