halogen
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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
Also, LED lights "are a lot more directional, so you've got this much brighter, whiter light in a very directional point hitting your eye compared to the more diffuse halogen ones".
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
One already well-understood source of glare is drivers retrofitting their vehicles, replacing old halogen bulbs with LEDs.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
When a simple halogen lamp illuminates the tiny cavities, the light inside is captured as if in a trap.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
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
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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
Researchers also found that halogens interact with oil field emissions to form free radicals, which later become more stable compounds capable of traveling long distances.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
Iodine is the least reactive of the halogens.
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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Chemistry - High School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - High School
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