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halogen

[hal-uh-juhn, -jen, hey-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

Another problem is the illegal retrofitting of LED bulbs, especially when fitted into units designed for halogen.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2026

"The resulting datasets are producing an improved understanding of the interactions between sea-spray aerosols, surface-coupled clouds, oil field emissions and multiphase halogen chemistry in the new Arctic."

From Science Daily Dec. 29, 2025

The housing for halogen bulbs is not compatible with LED bulbs, and a retrofitted car will not pass its annual MOT check-up.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2025

As the broiling sun set, a different kind of American landscape lit up: The halogen floodlights from the truck stop could be seen for miles.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

Thus chlorine and the rest of the halogens, the atoms of which combine with one atom of hydrogen, are called univalent, oxygen a bivalent element, and so on.—ED.

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien




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