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halogen

[hal-uh-juhn, -jen, hay-luh-] / ˈhæl ə dʒən, -ˌdʒɛn, ˈheɪ lə- /
NOUN
chlorine
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He did a more-than-competent job—he was Rossini after all—but the result always reminds me of shining a halogen light into a place of hallowed dim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

One already well-understood source of glare is drivers retrofitting their vehicles, replacing old halogen bulbs with LEDs.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

The beam is whiter, more focused and brighter than the more diffuse light from halogen lamps fitted in older cars.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

However, the influence of halogen bonds on the rapid photoinduced changes within supramolecular systems remains largely unexplored due to a lack of experimental techniques that can directly observe the halogen bond in action.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds—to stand out in brilliant relief.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

By combining different halide salts, researchers created MXenes with two or even three types of surface halogens in carefully controlled proportions.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026

Firstly, they are two to three times as bright as traditional halogens, and their "colour temperature" is bluer and whiter, which mimics natural daylight.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

A team from France and Germany has now studied the rapid decay of molecules containing halogens.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

The other halogens are also diatomic; Br2 is a liquid and I2 exists as a solid under normal conditions.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The halogens may be sometimes detected by fusing with lime, and testing the solution for a bromide, chloride and iodide in the usual way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various


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