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
The study also shows that changing the type of halogen on the surface alters how MXenes interact with electromagnetic waves.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 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 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
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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The researchers now want to investigate ways to confine the molten salts, potentially using halogens or carbon-based materials, which could make the salts easier to separate and process while improving their stability.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 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 halogens form diatomic molecules in which each atom is involved in only one bond.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Here the electro-negative halogens exercised a function similar to electro-positive hydrogen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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