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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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When sunlight strikes those particles, chemical reactions can release chlorine atoms.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.

From BBC Aug. 31, 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

The Grow Group Inc. chlorine cloud was one of the incidents that prompted L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The water was blue and full of chlorine, and my eyes stung, but I factored the equation and realized I was upside down and all I had to do was right myself and swim up.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

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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