chlorine
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Researchers propose that sunlight striking this mixture produced highly reactive chlorine.
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
The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
There was still the welcoming scent of chlorine and Coppertone and hot dogs and mustard.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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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