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noun- The act or process of treating or combining with a pale-yellow, highly corrosive, poisonous, gaseous halogen element, the most electronegative and most reactive of all the elements,

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  • However, the middle part, the fluorination facility, had deteriorated so badly during the freeze (1994 to 2003) that the building has been abandoned (as we were shown in...
  • But opposition to adding the chemical that is known to strengthen teeth and help prevent cavities has a history dating back to 1969 when city voters chose to be exempt from a...
  • When I grew up, it was fluorination of water.
  • "We haven't had a chance for fluorination yet.
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