chlorine

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

To manage the odor, city officials said Lineage is testing the use of chlorine dioxide as a deodorizer as food is removed and packed into trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

He also discovered many useful compounds, among them ammonia, glycerin, and tannic acid, and was the first to see the commercial potential of chlorine as a bleach–all breakthroughs that made other people extremely wealthy.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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