A compound containing fluorine and boron in ionic combination, used in metallurgy and surface treatment.
From fluor- + boride. This variant spelling emphasizes the ionic nature of the compound, distinguishing it from covalent forms.
Fluoborides are particularly useful in metal surface hardening because fluorine's extreme reactivity helps create protective oxide layers that boron atoms alone cannot achieve.
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