a. [ad. F. fluorique, f. fluor: see FLUOR and -IC.] Pertaining to or obtained from fluor or fluor-spar. Chiefly in † fluoric acid, the old name of hydrofluoric acid.
1790. R. Kerr, trans. Lavoisier’s Elem. Chem., 210. These radicals are susceptible of oxygenation, and of forming the muriatic, fluoric, and boracic acids.
1854. F. C. Bakewell, Geol., 12. Fluoric acid dissolves silex, and alkaline solutions also take up a portion of it.
1860. Hartwig, Sea & Wond., i. 12. Wilson has pointed out fluoric combinations in sea water.
