chlorine
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With the replacement pipe in place, workers transitioned to slowly refilling the pipe to restore pressure, disinfecting the water line with chlorine and checking for any leaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
The National Park Service said it is using pumps to treat the water with what it called nanobubble ozone technology to kill the algae, along with hydrogen peroxide, which it said is milder than chlorine.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
Some rocket fuel also directly adds chlorine to the atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The group have packed filter systems and chlorine pills to treat any water they take from streams.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
He smelled chlorine from the swimming pool next door, heard the springboard boom.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Vocabulary lists containing chlorine
Chemical Reactions - Middle School
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Chemical Reactions - High School
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Common Chemical Elements
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