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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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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

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

The group have packed filter systems and chlorine pills to treat any water they take from streams.

From BBC May 20, 2026

I tell myself that the chlorine in the water will be enough to kill the germs.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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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