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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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He also keeps things like chlorine dioxide tablets, which are often used to make water from streams or rivers safe to drink.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Nearby, a young girl and three boys played among stuffed toys recently disinfected with chlorine.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Under some heating conditions, chlorine from sucralose may become incorporated into other compounds whose health effects remain uncertain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Whole heads of lettuce are typically washed in a chlorine solution and packed in the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

I tell myself that the chlorine in the water will be enough to kill the germs.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

To produce dicarbon, they started with molecules consisting of two carbon atoms and four chlorine atoms and used a laser to strip off the chlorines, leaving only dicarbon.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

The trans isomer, formed when the chlorines are positioned at a 180° angle, has very different properties from the cis isomers.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019


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