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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

And in 1989, thousands had to flee when poisonous chlorine gas leaked from a 30-ton tank in Ventura County, injuring about 20 people.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2026

In the local hospital, a modest building nestled within the hillside town's trees and high grass, healthcare workers are rinsing both floor and walls with a chlorine solution.

From Barron's May 24, 2026

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

From BBC May 20, 2026

They drove out there, checked the chlorine shed, toured the perimeter, then trooped into a little shack that had been set up with four cots.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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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