sodium fluoride

A colorless crystalline salt, NaF, used to fluoridate water, to prevent tooth decay, and as an insecticide and disinfectant.

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so′dium fluor′ide

a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.

[1900–05]

sodium fluoride

A colorless, crystalline salt, NaF, used to fluoridate water and treat tooth decay. It is also used as an insecticide and a disinfectant.

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sodium fluoride - a colorless crystalline salt of sodium (NaF) used in fluoridation of water and to prevent tooth decay

salt - a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

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All 3 groups were housed separately where in addition to normal diet; Groups B & C were supplemented with 0.5% and 3% of Sodium fluoride solution orally through feeding tube which provided 5 mg and 30 mg of Sodium fluoride per Kg.

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Varnishes that contain sodium fluoride adhere to tooth surfaces when saliva is present, providing an excellent fluoride treatment.

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I am going to place you on sodium fluoride. It will not improve your hearing, but in many cases it will prevent further loss of the hearing nerve itself."

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Energy metabolism in human erythrocytes, I: effects of sodium fluoride. J Clin Invest 1971;50:1731-7.

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Geometric mean PbB concentrations for each water fluoridation method were 2.40 [micro]g/dL (sodium silicofluoride), 2.34 [micro]g/dL (hydrofluosilicic acid), 1.78 [micro]g/dL (sodium fluoride), 2.24 [micro]g/dL (natural fluoride and no fluoride), and 2.14 [micro]g/dL (unknown/mixed status).

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If analysis will be delayed for longer than one hour following collection, specimens for glucose analysis should be collected into tubes containing antiglycolytic agents, such as sodium fluoride. (2) Fluoride ions inhibit glycolysis by interfering with the reaction of the glycolytic enzyme enolase with its substrate.

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