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chlorine

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

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 Grow Group Inc. chlorine cloud was one of the incidents that prompted L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The chlorine is micro- chemically swept for the newly produced argon.

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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