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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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Given the water works, employing chemical purifying systems, it requires no imagination to picture the effects of chlorin and other elements upon brass pipe.

From Time Magazine Archive

The commonest form of the element, which in itself is very far from common, is what is known to chemistry as chloride of radium which is a combination of chlorin and radium.

From Marvels of Modern Science by Severing, Paul

Gluten gives it a blue tint: nitric acid and chlorin change it successively to green, blue, and brown.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

It consists of two elements, hydrogen and chlorin, from which its name is derived.

From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)

Four ounces of claret with the ordinary test meal reduced the free hydrochloric acid from 28 milligrams per 100 c. c. of stomach fluid to zero, and the combined chlorin from .270 to .125.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir



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