any compound containing six fluorine atoms per molecule
hexafluoride in American English
(ˌheksəˈfluraid, -ˈflɔr-, -ˈflour-)
noun
a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine
Word origin
[hexa- + fluoride]hexa- is a combining form meaning “six,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix hexa- include: hexachloroethane, hexachlorophene, hexadecimal, hexaemeron, hexapla
Examples of 'hexafluoride' in a sentence
hexafluoride
For other uses, the uranium oxide is converted into uranium hexafluoride gas so that it can be enriched.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
A few tonnes of raw uranium would be converted into about the same amount of hexafluoride gas.
canada.com (2004)
It set a pattern: enrichment was called research but plans went ahead to feed uranium hexafluoride into centrifuges.