fluoridation

English

Etymology

From fluoride +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

fluoridation (countable and uncountable, plural fluoridations)

1. (chemistry) The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water.

   Antonym: defluoridation

   Hyponym: water fluoridation

   • 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in Live Science‎, retrieved 30 September 2013:

     Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.

   • 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN‎, sourced from Associated Press:

     Proposed restrictions on fluoridation in New Hampshire, Tennessee and North Dakota were rejected. A measure in Kentucky to make fluoridation optional stalled in the state Senate.

Derived terms

• antifluoridation
• defluoridation

Related terms

• fluoridate (verb)
• fluoridated (adjective)
• fluoridationist
• fluoritization (not to be confused)
• water fluoridation

Translations

the act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water

Catalan: fluoració f Estonian: fluorimine Finnish: fluoraus Greek: φθορίωση (el) f (fthoríosi) Portuguese: fluoretação f Slovak: fluoridácia