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
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
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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
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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Chemistry - High School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - High School
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