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
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
The halogen bulbs were still installed, but the wires had come loose during Artemis’s investigations.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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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
The metals of group 13 all react directly with nonmetals such as sulfur, phosphorus, and the halogens, forming binary compounds.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The process is therefore adapted to the simultaneous estimation of carbon, hydrogen, the halogens and sulphur.
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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