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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

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

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

When illuminated by the microscope's halogen lamp and analyzed through a spectrometer, the light separates into different wavelengths.

From Science Daily Oct. 23, 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

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

From Science Daily Dec. 2, 2024

Elemental sulfur oxidizes less electronegative nonmetals, and more electronegative nonmetals, such as oxygen and the halogens, will oxidize it.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Compounds of silicon with hydrogen and the halogens.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by McPherson, William




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