chlorine
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When sunlight strikes those particles, chemical reactions can release chlorine atoms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Whole heads of lettuce are typically washed in a chlorine solution and packed in the field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They’re the stench of smoke and soot and chlorine, and of burning, rotting, rat-besieged food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He also discovered many useful compounds, among them ammonia, glycerin, and tannic acid, and was the first to see the commercial potential of chlorine as a bleach–all breakthroughs that made other people extremely wealthy.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
To produce dicarbon, they started with molecules consisting of two carbon atoms and four chlorine atoms and used a laser to strip off the chlorines, leaving only dicarbon.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
The trans isomer, formed when the chlorines are positioned at a 180° angle, has very different properties from the cis isomers.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Vocabulary lists containing chlorine
Chemical Reactions - Middle School
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Chemical Reactions - High School
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Common Chemical Elements
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