chlorine
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As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
PVC is especially challenging to recycle because it contains chlorine and can include a wide range of additives depending on how it was manufactured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
The workers must then disinfect the pipe with chlorine and test the water’s quality for safety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 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
In both sectors, the attacks were preceded by the discharge of chlorine gas—the first time poison gas had been used by the Allies.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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