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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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For centuries, Mr. Tullett writes, the process relied on steeping old rags in chlorine; as demand grew, production shifted toward wood chips broken down with sulfites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nearby, a young girl and three boys played among stuffed toys recently disinfected with chlorine.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Those chlorine atoms then reacted with methane in the plume, helping destroy some of the methane released during the eruption.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

To detect the predicted solar neutrino flux, you need an immense amount of chlorine, so American physicists have poured a huge quantity of cleaning fluid into the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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


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